Why'd the Beetle Cross the Road?

We spend five of the seven minutes of this short subject watching what is supposed to be a California Black Beetle cross a public beach, including a short among of concrete for walking on. We are then put in a classroom in which a teacher asks "the age old question of why the beetle crossed the road". We get a nonsensical answer to this question I have never heard elsewhere, and then a minute of credits. The end.

It looks like this award-winning short subject was dreamed up on drugs, and then someone spent a good amount of time tormenting a black beetle.

I think the competition must have been very easy that year.