What on Earth?!?

Time for a fun short from the National Film Board, What on Earth!

This animated short proposes what many earthlings have long feared – that the automobile has inherited the planet. When life on Earth is portrayed as one long, unending conga-line of cars, a crew of extra-terrestrial visitors understandably assume they are the dominant race. While humans, on the other hand, are merely parasites. An Oscar®-nominee, this film serves as an entertaining case study.

I always suspected that cars were the actual earthlings, but this is a little too much!

What on Earth!, Les Drew & Kaj Pindal, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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