Summaries

A faux travelogue that mixes documentary and mockumentary footage. The camera looks through a one-way glass into the women's dressing room at a lingerie shop, visits a Kyoto massage parlor, goes inside the mailroom at Frederick's of Hollywood, watches an Australian who sticks nails through his skin and eats glass, checks out the art and peace scene in Los Angeles, takes in Easter week with vacationing college students on Balboa Island, observes a German audience enjoying a play about Nazi sadism, and, with the help of powerful military lenses, spies on a Lebanese white-slavery auction. A narrator adds gravitas: "To the worm in the cheese, the cheese is the universe."—<[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • travelogue
  • narration
  • slave auction
  • fake documentary
  • mondo film
Genres
  • Adventure
  • Documentary
Release date Jan 2, 1967
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production companies International Theatrical Amusements

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 20m
Color Color Black and White
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

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