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

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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