Man in a Blue Vase (1960)

Directed by

Rod Kinnear

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like this

How it feels

This is a one-off Australian television comedy from 1960. It was part of a series of monthly standalone plays and was broadcast in Melbourne and Sydney. Photographs from the production appeared in a newspaper at the time.

lightheartedplayfulwhimsicaldatedlow-keyquirkyshortdialogue-driven

What happens

"Man in a Blue Vase" is an Australian television one-off comedy presentation which aired in 1960. It was part of Shell Presents, which consisted of monthly presentations of standalone television dramas and comedies. It aired on 19 March 1960 on GTV-9 in Melbourne and on 5 March 1960 on ATN-7 in Sydney, as this was prior to the creation of the Seven Network and Nine Network. A set of pictures from the show appear in a 1960 edition of The Age Unlike most of the Shell Presents presentations, it wasn't aired live. Although produced in Melbourne, it aired in Sydney first. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day (1960)
• Close to the Roof (1960)
• The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1960)
• The Man in the Moon (1960)
• Eye of the Night (1960)
• Burst of Summer (1960)
• They Were Big, They Were Blue, They Were Beautiful (1959)
• Vacancy in Vaughan Street (1963)
• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.