What on Earth! (1966)

Directed by

Les Drew, Kaj Pindal

Genre

comedy film, science fiction film, mockumentary, science fiction comedy

Country

Canada

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Martians study Earth and conclude that cars are the dominant species. They see humans as parasites living on the cars.

humoroussatiricalplayfuldeadpanquirkylightheartedobservationalwhimsical

What happens

What on Earth! (French: La Terre est habitée!) is a 1966 National Film Board of Canada animated short co-directed by Les Drew and Kaj Pindal. The film is a mockumentary, introduced in its opening credits as produced by the "National Film Board of Mars" that takes a humorous look at car culture from the point of view of fictional Martians, who mistake automobiles for Earth's true inhabitants and people as their parasites. It attempts to examine the sociology of the automobile as the dominant species on earth, and makes wild guesses about the lifestyle, feeding habits, mating habits and funeral rites of this "species." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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