The Old Negro Space Program (2004)
- Directed by
- Andy Bobrow
- Genre
- comedy
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 4 voters
- 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.
How it feels
A short mockumentary imagines a fictional black space program from the 1960s. It uses the style of a Ken Burns documentary to joke about the exclusion of black astronauts from the real NASA.
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What happens
The Old Negro Space Program is a short mockumentary in the style of a Ken Burns film. Imagining a black space program, whose "blackstronauts" were excluded from "White NASA", the film lampoons Burns's history of the Negro leagues, a subject of his 1994 series, Baseball. The ten-minute film was produced and directed by Andy Bobrow, who wrote for the television series Hype, Malcolm in the Middle and later, Community. Bobrow later went on to write the Community episode "Pillows and Blankets", another parody of Ken Burns. It was created for broad release on the Internet. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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