A loner, spied scavenging among used tires, becomes, in his studio, an inspired designer of tire sculpture as treads and sidewalls are fashioned into toads, elephants, and alligators, which become the models for an innovative community-constructed playground created entirely from tires. A production to intrigue playground regulars in ecology and social studies students as well as to inspire civic an community groups to similar recycling efforts. (1984 IFF Catalogue)