Once upon a Prime Time

1,547 views · Published 16 December 2015 · 17:01 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: NFB · 2015 · Film & Animation

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This short fictional film is a zany spoof of TV content with plenty of violence borrowed from the very source it seeks to parody. Our protagonist is a housewife who has lost her family to the television set. Suddenly, her home is invaded and her life is taken over by characters that seem to spring from the V screen. Initially, she attempts to get the intruders out of her house. But eventually, she begins to see that perhaps a life on TV wouldn’t be so bad after all. Will her distracted husband even notice her departure?

Directed by Bernard Devlin - 1966 | 17 min

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