{"id":9930,"date":"2010-03-17T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=9930"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:28:46","slug":"what-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/03\/17\/what-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch NFB: Oscar-nominated animated short, What on Earth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor: Spacing is pleased to showcase films from the <a href=\"http:\/\/nfb.ca\">NFB&#8217;s online screening room<\/a>. The NFB will be occasionally posting films here that explore our public spaces, Canadian or international cities and anything urban. The NFB is one of Canada&#8217;s greatest resources; <a href=\"http:\/\/nfb.ca\">watch movies for free online<\/a> at NFB.ca.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/media1.nfb.ca\/medias\/flash\/ONFflvplayer-gama.swf\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"  flashvars=\"mID=IDOBJ14303&#038;bufferTime=10&#038;width=500&#038;height=327&#038;image=http:\/\/media1.nfb.ca\/medias\/nfb_tube\/thumbs_large\/2010\/What-on-Earth_BIG.jpg&#038;showWarningMessages=false&#038;streamNotFoundDelay=15&#038;lang=en&#038;getPlaylistOnEnd=true&#038;playlist_id=REL179&#038;embeddedMode=true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Check out <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/what_on_earth\/\">What on Earth!<\/a><\/em>, an Oscar-nominated animated short from 1966 by Les Drew and Kaj Pindal. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis animated short proposes what many earthlings have long feared \u2013 that the automobile has inherited the planet. When life on Earth is portrayed as one long, unending conga-line of cars, a crew of extra-terrestrial visitors understandably assume they are the dominant race.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor: Spacing is pleased to showcase films from the NFB&#8217;s online screening room. The NFB will be occasionally posting films here that explore our public spaces, Canadian or international cities and anything urban. The NFB is one of Canada&#8217;s greatest resources; watch movies for free online at NFB.ca. 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