A short 90's film that ran on Nickelodeon about new shoes.
Jun 24, 2020 7:41:13 GMT
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Post by youtube on Jun 24, 2020 7:41:13 GMT
If anything, it was a filler or bumper that they aired between shows back in the early 90's. I would not be surprised if this was something they also aired in the late 80's too or at the very beginning of Nickelodeon's creation.
If I had to guess, maybe it was Canadian, as that was a country where the channel would get some of its content from, but that's a total stab in the dark.
As for the short film itself, I remember seeing it numerous times as a kid. It started out with a young teenage girl with a raggedy pair of sneakers going to the mall with her parents (I want to say we only ever heard the mom or the dad, but I can't be 100% on that) to buy a new pair. The shoes are destroyed, and after buying a brand new pair of shoes, just like the ones she destroyed, her parents say they're going to go home (or so I think) and the girl says she'd prefer to walk home instead. Her parents say that's okay, but don't get your new shoes dirty. She says she won't, and then we proceed to see a montage set to In the Hall of the Mountain King where the girl walks home and gradually destroys her new pair of shoes. I remember her jumping into puddles, but the one main image that sticks out is gum getting stuck I want to say both underneath the shoe and on the laces and the girl's finger trying to get it off. The short film ends with the girl getting home, and her new pair of sneakers look just like the old ones she had to replace.
I vividly remember seeing this as a kid in the early 1990's on Nickelodeon, but I've never been able to find it anywhere online. It would always air in-between shows as a bumper or a filler. Nickelodeon did this for a couple of different shorts if I remember correctly (there was no distinct short films program that I can recall, they just seemed to air these things at random). One of which was an older film, had to be from the 70's, about a man being very upset over not being able to buy a newspaper out of a newspaper holder and the damage he caused in turn caused him to get arrested and dragged off by a cop. Another had three strangers all talking on payphones and just making the same sounds over and over again - "uh huh" was one I remember - and this one came out in the 90's too, but a bit later, maybe like 96-97.
Either way, hopefully this leads to something and one of you out there has this taped over on a VHS.
If I had to guess, maybe it was Canadian, as that was a country where the channel would get some of its content from, but that's a total stab in the dark.
As for the short film itself, I remember seeing it numerous times as a kid. It started out with a young teenage girl with a raggedy pair of sneakers going to the mall with her parents (I want to say we only ever heard the mom or the dad, but I can't be 100% on that) to buy a new pair. The shoes are destroyed, and after buying a brand new pair of shoes, just like the ones she destroyed, her parents say they're going to go home (or so I think) and the girl says she'd prefer to walk home instead. Her parents say that's okay, but don't get your new shoes dirty. She says she won't, and then we proceed to see a montage set to In the Hall of the Mountain King where the girl walks home and gradually destroys her new pair of shoes. I remember her jumping into puddles, but the one main image that sticks out is gum getting stuck I want to say both underneath the shoe and on the laces and the girl's finger trying to get it off. The short film ends with the girl getting home, and her new pair of sneakers look just like the old ones she had to replace.
I vividly remember seeing this as a kid in the early 1990's on Nickelodeon, but I've never been able to find it anywhere online. It would always air in-between shows as a bumper or a filler. Nickelodeon did this for a couple of different shorts if I remember correctly (there was no distinct short films program that I can recall, they just seemed to air these things at random). One of which was an older film, had to be from the 70's, about a man being very upset over not being able to buy a newspaper out of a newspaper holder and the damage he caused in turn caused him to get arrested and dragged off by a cop. Another had three strangers all talking on payphones and just making the same sounds over and over again - "uh huh" was one I remember - and this one came out in the 90's too, but a bit later, maybe like 96-97.
Either way, hopefully this leads to something and one of you out there has this taped over on a VHS.
