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Canned Performance

1977

6 minutes

MusicScience Fiction

Overview

Color UCLA Student Animation Workshop Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Mixed live action and stop motion absurdist animation of a desert traveler who encounters a Godzilla-like monster emerging from a Coca-Cola can. Directed by animator and special effects artist Hoyt Yeatman, known for visual effects on The Fly (1986), Armageddon (1998), The Abyss (1989), and for directing G-Force (2009).

Top Cast

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John Plemmons

Desert Traveler