Underplayed Gems

Road Movies

Road Movies poster
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

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 series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Eight young Canadians travel across the country to make short TV reports about local life and culture. The series presents these reports as a newsmagazine without any competition between the travelers.

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What happens

Road Movies is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 1992. The series sent eight young Canadians to locations throughout Canada, to create short reports on local life and culture for television broadcast. The series was based on the Télévision de Radio-Canada series La Course destination monde, but dropped the competitive element from the original series to become effectively just a documentary newsmagazine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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