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Canned Film Festival
The ''Canned Film Festival'' is a comedy-based motion picture television series that was nationally syndicated during the late night hours in the United States for a single season in the summer of 1986. With only a one-letter difference in the spelling, the name is an intentional play on the name for the ''Cannes Film Festival'', the annual world-renowned film-screening celebration in Cannes, France. Not to be confused with the latter, the ''Canned Film Festival'' featured B movies as the centerpiece for each television episode, and was composed of short vignettes interwoven throughout the films.〔 Boasting the tagline "late night with the best of the worst," the series was promoted and sponsored by the Dr Pepper Company, whose then-tagline "out-of-the-ordinary" echoed the show's collection of odd and strange movies.〔〔 The series was created by Young & Rubicam and developed for television by Chelsea Communications, LLC (a company later acquired by the now bankrupt Adelphia Communications Corporation).〔(Chelsea Communications ). ''Business Week''. Retrieved on 17 February 2008.〕
Although similar in style to the successful ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' series that aired a few years later, the ''Canned Film Festival'' differed in that its comedy scenes occurred strictly during the commercial intermissions instead of adding peanut gallery type satire during the actual run of the movies. In addition, the script, although comedic in nature, often reflected upon the serious contextual and cultural subjects contained in the featured movies, sometimes providing historical insight into their production. An example is seen during the episode featuring ''Project Moonbase'', where female spaceship commanders were discussed as an accurate future prediction by the 1950s era movie, as were cordless telephones and big screen televisions. The featured B movies of the series were not full-length, and edited to fit the show's approximately two-hour timeframe per episode.
==Plot summary==
The series plot was built around the fictional town of Limekirk, Texas, where the local ''Ritz'' theater was undergoing economic and cultural decline due to lack of a customer base. The owner and sole usherette, Laraine (Laraine Newman), took extreme measures to attract moviegoers by adding laundry facilities to the lobby and stocking a large collection of unusual confections.〔 With the exception of popcorn and Dr Pepper, these confections were completely fictional, with names like "Butter Lumps", "Chocolate Covered Lug Nuts", and "Diet-Free Nutra-Cal Bars", and were occasionally the source for minor script material.
As the story maintains during the opening sequence of each episode, the most successful of Laraine's business ventures to rejuvenate the ''Ritz'' was, by far, the screening of strange and unusual films that resulted in the series' namesake. Laraine, together with her mother who ran the projector booth, succeeded in attracting several new customers who became regular characters throughout the rest of the series run.
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