The Old Negro Space Program
The Old Negro Space Program is a short mockumentary in the style of a Ken Burns film. Imagining a black space program, whose "blackstronauts" were excluded from "White NASA", the film lampoons Burns's history of the Negro leagues, a subject of his 1994 series, Baseball.
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Directed by | Andy Bobrow |
Written by | Andy Bobrow |
Starring | Johnny Brown, Andy Bobrow |
Narrated by | Rodney Saulsberry |
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Running time | 10/11 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The ten-minute film was produced and directed by Andy Bobrow, who wrote for the television series Hype, Malcolm in the Middle and later, Community. Bobrow later went on to write the Community episode "Pillows and Blankets", another parody of Ken Burns.
It was created for broad release on the Internet.
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