Once Upon a Prime Time

Once Upon a Prime Time

17 mins | Jan. 1, 1966

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?

Once Upon a Prime Time

17 mins | Jan. 1, 1966

Once Upon a Prime Time
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?
Producers National Film Board of Canada
Original title Once Upon a Prime Time
Directors Bernard Devlin
Writers

Cast

Tudi Wiggins

as Mrs. Lavinia Smudge