People Soup
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | People Soup |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 12 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alan Arkin |
| script | Alan Arkin |
| production | Marc Merson |
| music | Richard Lavsky |
| camera | William Garron |
| occupation | |
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People Soup is a 1969 American short film directed by Alan Arkin, for which producer Marc Merson was nominated for an Oscar .
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The actor Alan Arkin, 35 years old at the time and already twice nominated for an Oscar, filmed his two underage sons Adam and Matthew experimenting with different kitchen ingredients in order to create a soup. After they have eaten them, they can suddenly turn into different animals or objects. They have a lot of fun doing what they do.
production
The film was produced by Columbia Pictures Corporation in collaboration with Pangloss Productions. Alan Arkin wrote two stories in the 1950s, before he was a well-known actor, and they were published in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction .
Award
- Nominated: Marc Merson in the “Best Short Film” (Live Action) category.
However, the Oscar went to Joan Keller Stern and the short documentary film The Magic Machines , which deals with the work of the sculptor Robert Gilbert, who made kinetic and mechanical machines out of scrap parts which he then paints.
Web links
- People Soup in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- People Soup (1969) by Alan Arkin see letterboxd.com (English)
- People Soup film clips in the original
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 42nd Academy Awards | 1970 see oscars.org (English)
- ↑ Whiskaboom and People Soup by Alan Arkin amazon.com (English)