A Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil film studio. Unbeknownest to him, the producer has placed a bet of $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. ...
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Cast
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Mike Jittlov | ... | Mike Jittlov / The Wizard / Torch Carrier (Wizard Film) |
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Richard Kaye | ... | Harvey Bookman |
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Paige Moore | ... | Cindy Lite / Dancer / Pretty Hitchhiker (Wizard Film) |
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Deven Chierighino | ... | Brian Lucas / Photographer (Wizard Film) (as David Conrad) |
| Steve Brodie | ... | Lucky Straeker | |
| John Massari | ... | Steve Shostakovich / Photographer (Wizard Film) | |
| Gary Schwartz | ... | Canadian Thug | |
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Frank LaLoggia | ... | American Thug |
| Philip Michael Thomas | ... | Policeman Mickey Polanko | |
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Lynda Aldon | ... | Policewoman Minnie Smith |
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Baron | ... | Policedog Pluto |
| Arnetia Walker | ... | Tina Dreem / Running Girl | |
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Ben Kronen | ... | C.C. de Schwartz |
| Angelique Pettyjohn | ... | Dora Belair | |
| Will Ryan | ... | All the Unions / Mr. President (voice) (as William Z. Ryan) | |
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A Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil film studio. Unbeknownest to him, the producer has placed a bet of $25,000 that he won't come up with anything with a use. Luckily, our film creator gets the help of his friends. Written by Magnus Y Alvestad <magnus@johanna2.hsr.no>
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film within a film | stop motion animation | filmmaking | autobiographical | based on short film |Taglines:
This is the kind of movie you would make, if you had nothing better to do! See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
September 1989 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Czarnoksieznik predkosci i czasu See more »Edit
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Budget:
$1,535,000 (estimated)Company Credits
Production Co:
Jittlov / Kaye Productions, Rochambeau Productions (I), Shapiro-Glickenhaus Entertainment See more »
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MonoColor:
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1.85 : 1
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Video Editor: Look! I don't do miracles.
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The film features an independent filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) playing an independent filmmaker, a producer (Richard Kaye) playing a producer and an actress (Paige Moore) playing an actress. See more »Goofs
In a shot of the studios from the air, the name is misspelled across the roof of one of the buildings ("Hollywod Studios" instead of "Hollywood Studios"). However, this misspelling is repeated in signs within the studio itself (ex. "Hollywod's Greatest Defects"), showing this not to be an error in the movie, but an intentional mistake to further demonstrate the incompetence of the studio. See more »Quotes
Harvey Bookman: Now I want... Big Bang all around the rocket girls, I wanna see video explosions everywhere. I wanna see little meteors shooting out into space; space everywhere!Video Editor: Look! I don't do miracles.
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What began as a three minute student film has become a cult classic that seems to snowball with the years. Mike Jittlov, film-maker/animator/writer/director/editor/co-producer/calligrapher/cult figure and iconoclast, created this cultural cul-de-sac as almost a love story to film-making. The sequence where he applies for various Union memberships to complete his film is probably too close to the truth, and the hyper-kinetically edited sequence near the end of the film is a wonder to behold.
Bootleg copies of the (now long out-of-print) SGE release have been passed around fandom like pieces of the true cross, and the popularity of the film, as well as it's creator, only grows stronger.
This film should be required viewing for all film students, as well as those who want to know how to make a film on a low budget (and how there are many sharks in the waters of Hollywood, which this film so clearly points out).
Hunt down this film (copies can be had in one form or another, check the related websites), watch it, and cherish it. You may end up wearing out the pause and slow-scan buttons on your VCR trying to figure out how he did these special effects without a computer!