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Ernie Schmidt · Canada · Satire / Comedy / Animation · 10 min · 14K views
From the director of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe

Directed by Ernie Schmidt · Starring Red Robinson, Hugh Foulds, Ernie Schmidt, Joan Banwell · 1975

A television salesman's pitch kicks off a pointed animated satire of TV programming built around products rather than viewers.

A sharp 1970s NFB satire whose jabs at TV consumerism still land today.

This animated short is an entertaining and incisive satire on some of the material that is disgorged via the "boob tube." The opening pitch of the television salesman establishes the tone of this pithy film: a solid-stat

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