Once upon a Prime Time
1966
16 min
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This short fictional film is a zany spoof of TV content with plenty of violence borrowed from the very source it seeks to parody. Our protagonist is a housewife who has lost her family to the television set. Suddenly, her home is invaded and her life is taken over by characters that seem to spring from the V screen. Initially, she attempts to get the intruders out of her house. But eventually, she begins to see that perhaps a life on TV wouldn’t be so bad after all. Will her distracted husband even notice her departure?
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This short fictional film is a zany spoof of TV content with plenty of violence borrowed from the very source it seeks to parody. Our protagonist is a housewife who has lost her family to the television set. Suddenly, her home is invaded and her life is taken over by characters that seem to spring from the V screen. Initially, she attempts to get the intruders out of her house. But eventually, she begins to see that perhaps a life on TV wouldn’t be so bad after all. Will her distracted husband even notice her departure?
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directorBernard Devlin
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producerDavid Bairstow
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writerStan Daniels
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photographyJean RoyThomas Vamos
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soundAndré Hourlier
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editingKathleen Shannon
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sound editingJohn Knight
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re-recordingRon AlexanderRoger Lamoureux
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castEdward AllenPaul BervalChristien DelmasBasil FitzgibbonGilles PellerinJoan StuartJohn VernonTudi WigginsLeslie YeoTed ZeiglerChris WigginsNed ConlonRoland Bédard
