How Much? (1963)

★★★★ · Bullseye! · GE_Pretzel · 2006-05-08

A friendly man with a pair of amazingly conspicuous ears acts as the host of this short film that discusses the challenges of effectively estimating the production costs of industrial films. Viewers are informed that it is extremely difficult for production costs to be determined by the film company unless the client offers significant details about the scope of the film being ordered. In order to ensure best results, clients are recommended to allow the film company to submit a proposal featuring budgetary details and a feasible story treatment. The Calvin Company may be defunct, but this…

★★★★ · How long is a piece of string? · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-03-14

Another Calvin Workshop film, this time definately for an external audience. Like "Check... and Let Me Know", this film discusses what goes into determining a film budget. However, around the humorous vignettes about the arbitrary nature of what goes into a film budget, we have the narrator from the classic "Your Name Here" gives the audience practical advice on what is needed from a client in planning a film. Clearly, this film is aimed at preventing clients from saying just that they want a film about so long, in color about a subject, and expect a number instantaneously. It also helps that…

★★★ · meh · Karma Hawk · 2005-04-13

probobly good advice for film makers but it really doesn't go anywhere. Baisicly this film tells the story of an up and coming film producer who wants to make a film about a factory of some sort he goes around to different industrialist and they don't seem to know eithier so instead they just make up figures, some of it is chuckle worthy (the man franticly writing down random numbers the "bullzeye" guy) but nothing is really laugh out loud funny here. Thier also seems to be gaps of films similar to those found in #Bfl O {ggGX = STwWcfl x 2s4 (you know the one about monkeys in the film…