They found it easier to understand the poem’s timeless message, many going on to reread the poem with a much greater degree of understanding. Not only did students enjoy it, but their overall comprehension rose from fifty to one-hundred percent. Raúl daSilva used the film in his classes as a teaching aid. Certificate of Merit (general recognition of creativity) Chicago International Film Festival.CHRIS Statuette (first place) Columbus International Film Festival.CINDY Statuette (first place) Template:IFPA (Information Film Producers Association), Hollywood, California.Gold Venus (first place) Virgin Islands Film Festival.Gold Medal(first place) International Film & TV Festival of New York City.Golden Eagle (first place) CINE: Washington, DC.The film was entered into six international film festivals and won six prizes, five of which were in the first-place category. The film took two years of production to complete. Using the Oxberry master series animation stand the process took six months. It is a time consuming, arduous procedure that includes the analysis and breakdown of the entire sound track and the planning of frame to frame exposure of all visual elements.

The Wikipedia article on photoanimation explains the technique used for this film. This was accomplished with the help of Sir Michael Redgrave (who'd taught the epic poem as a young schoolmaster before becoming an actor) and with the additional use of sound and music to enhance, support, and illustrate the poem's dramatic and often difficult language. Raúl daSilva's film introduces additional sensory perception elements to Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner by taking the poem, which was written in a faux-archaic (purportedly Elizabethan) form of English and visualizing it.

Rime of the ancient mariner film