Volume 2, No. 12. June 28, 2002
New Arrivals
It’s
a 3D movie!
Santa’s Village in Jefferson, New Hampshire, announces the arrival of Christmas
Chaos, June 16, 2002. Measurements: 8:38 time of movie, 300 seats. Delivered
by PowderKeg, Inc.
Christian
Gainer, as vice president of operations at Santa’s Village, had often visited
Orlando, Florida, and often seen the stunning 3D movies produced for the Universal
and Disney theme parks. As he pondered what new production to put in his park’s
theater, he theorized that many of the guests who visit the rural New England
amusement park have not seen 3D movies. He was right.
“When
that list comes out and starts tapping people on the head, there’s an immediate
reaction,” Gainer said. The list is Santa’s delivery manifest which,
in the movie’s climax, is accidently sprinkled with flying reindeer dust
and begins flying through the air. Santa shouts to the theater audience to help
him get his list back, “and the children start swatting at it,” Gainer
said.
Aimed
at children, the movie has a moral. Santa’s new head elf, L. Fastidious
Tinkerdoodle, convinces his boss to modernize operations, improving efficiency
through computer technology. When things get hectic instead and that all-import
list goes missing, Tinkerdoodle has learned his lesson: that one shouldn’t
try to change the magic of Christmas.
If
there is any irony in this message being delivered in the form of one of entertainment’s
newest technologies, it is lost on the children who fill that steep-graded theater
swatting at an illusion.
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