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What on Earth!

1966
La Terre est habitée!
10 min., colour, 35mm
English
Director Kaj PindalLes Drew
Producer Wolf KoenigRobert Verrall
Writer Kaj Pindal
Cinematographer Kjeld Nielsen
Animation Kaj PindalLes Drew
Sound Ron AlexanderRoger Lamoureux
Music Don Douglas
Narration Donald Brittain
Production Company National Film Board of Canada
This clever and funny satire on humanity’s obsession with automobiles features the characteristically droll perspective of Kaj Pindal and the dry wit of Les Drew. Invaders from Mars arrive and conclude that cars are the true inhabitants of Earth and that humans are parasites infesting the autos. Lighthearted and whimsical, while still offering a trenchant – and prescient – comment on the environmental costs of our reliance on automobiles, What on Earth! received an Academy Award® nomination for Animated Short Subject.

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