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A cine-parable in which an aging rich man hatches one last money-making scheme -- a serum which claims to satisfy children's desire for gratification by speeding up time.

Experimental, 1998   Length: 44 minutes   Director: David Schmidlapp   Distribution:   LappLand Films   212-924-1634   Fax: 212-777-5194   schmid@el.net Premiere: Sunday, August 2, 1998 11pm, on Thirteen/WNET. (Repeat: Tuesday night, August 4, 1998 12:30am.)

This fractured fairy tale features a delusional protagonist, the Big Time Operator, who thinks he can dupe the children of the world into buying his "magic elixir." Using music and a disjunctive narrative, much of this piece operates like a sing-song children's rhyme, with a chorus of youngsters pleading for truthfulness and an old man shuffling to stay ahead. With the repetition of images, music, and the repulsive image of an old man deceiving little children, this is a perfect tale of good and evil -- an analogy for our present capitalist/consumer state.
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