{"id":2297,"date":"2010-06-29T04:56:38","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T08:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2010-06-29T06:41:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T10:41:59","slug":"in-box-summer-sci-fi-short-film-festival-with-at-at-day-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/06\/29\/in-box-summer-sci-fi-short-film-festival-with-at-at-day-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"In Box Summer Sci-fi SHORT Film Festival continues with &#8220;AT-AT Day Afternoon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The In Box&#8217;s Summer sci-fi film festival continues with another teeny-tiny gem, this one clocking in at just over a minute.<\/p>\n<p>George Lucas&#8217;s Star Wars saga reinvented science fiction and film making.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read that Patrick Boivin, the director of this short, grew up wanting a dog&#8230;and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AT-AT#All_Terrain_Armored_Transport_.28AT-AT.29\">toy At-At &#8220;Imperial Walker&#8221; tank first introduced in &#8220;Empire Strikes Back.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He combined those desires into this bit of wish fulfillment.\u00a0 And just so I don&#8217;t seem like I&#8217;m being too highbrow, I&#8217;ll point out that there&#8217;s an awesome bit of dog-poop humor, too.<\/p>\n<p>The curtain rises!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"200\" height=\"120\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-CVYOCMpJRY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-CVYOCMpJRY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at what Lucas&#8217;s (far less interesting) AT-AT&#8217;s are like in action.  <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"190\" height=\"160\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JhpS69eAXrU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JhpS69eAXrU&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The In Box sci fi film festival continues tomorrow with a film from Uruguay about an attack by giant robots!  Ah, summer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The In Box&#8217;s Summer sci-fi film festival continues with another teeny-tiny gem, this one clocking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}