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Technological Threat

Animation · Science Fiction

Technological Threat

5.9(22) 5/15/1988 0h 5m
AnimationScience FictionComedy

Human fear of technology is portrayed in this very amusing futuristic parody. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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Top Cast

Mel Blanc

Mel Blanc

Various (voice; uncredited)

Directed by

Bill Kroyer

Production

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CinemaSerf

7/10

1/8/2026

Six besuited employees are working away at their desks until one keels over from exhaustion. Next thing, the boss has opened a trap door. Gone is the worker and in comes a robot. Curiously still working with a pencil it, and it’s colleagues, are soon able to outperform the remainder of the increasingly struggling workforce until there is only one human left. When the slave-driving boss goes home, the lone two-legged survivor sees an opportunity to redress the balance somewhat. This is where the film goes a little “Tom & Jerry” with some slapstick antics and even a little unlikely teamwork as the man tries to reassert himself over his more efficient mechanical creations and the latter start to fear for their own survival too. It’s quite a cleverly crafted animation that mixes the two and th

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