Your Studio and You (1995)

Directed by

Trey Parker

Genre

comedy film, pseudo-documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

14 min

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a short parody of 1950s educational films. It makes fun of Universal Pictures and its famous stars and employees. The film was made for an internal company party.

sillysatiricalplayfulcampyfast-pacedabsurdself-awarenostalgic

What happens

Your Studio and You is a 1995 American comedy short film created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. The two made it for Universal Pictures and commissioned by comedic filmmaker David Zucker. It was to be played at a party Seagram threw for its employees acquired as a result of its Universal take-over. It parodies the style of 1950s educational films such as Duck and Cover, while poking fun at Universal and its talent. It was shot in the Universal Studios Lot, and it runs approximately 14 minutes. Upon commissioning the duo to make this film, David Zucker failed to mention that there was no script, so everything was written by Parker and Stone less than an hour before it was shot. The film is notable in that it was Stone and Parker's first Hollywood gig. Parker has said that "you could probably make a feature film out of the experience of making that movie because it was just two dudes from college suddenly directing Steven Spielberg." This film has still seen no public release as it was intended to be strictly an internal film (indeed, its creators were not even allowed a copy), but copies of the film have surfaced on the Internet. Ifilm.com had the video on its site for a limited time. The video was promoted on the site in ad banners. These advertisements included the date that ifilm.com would stop hosting the video. Stone and Parker would make their first major studio-produced feature, BASEketball, for Universal with David Zucker directing (albeit one in which they merely starred). Parker would very later appear in the 2017 animated Universal/Illumination film Despicable Me 3 as the antagonist Balthazar Bratt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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