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Mel Brooks: Spaceballs: The Art of the Trope (or, making the cliché absurd) by Tom McNamara

What came first: the Mel Brooks movie or the cliché? The classic Hollywood Sci-Fi spaceship always gets gratuitous screentime from every camera angle. Mel Brooks's Hollywood spaceship appears in a continuous one minute and 40 second scene detailing its ridiculous length.

SOURCE: PBS at 01:04PM on May 6, 2013

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