The Vandalism Film (Only You Can Stop It)

Here's a short anti-vandalism film aimed squarely at young children. In a place populated only by marionettes, one of them wrecks things, much to the annoyance of the other marionettes. There's also a lecture on how much vandalism costs in terms of things parents buy for children.

It's the Bob Baker marionettes. . He was a popular worker in the craft, and the theater he founded in the early 1960s is still in operation, making it, so their site claims, the oldest children's theater in Los Angeles.

I don't like this short. You know how some people don't like clowns? I feel that way about marionettes.

I first saw this weird, some what disturbing film on Something Weird and right there and then I knew that it was going to be a long strange journey! The story revolves around marionette puppet named Sneaky who according to the song, "dosn't care about you and me" and goes around writing (or more to the point kinda scribbling) on walls, apparently smearing paint on desks, breaking windows and pushing over and rolling trash cans with other mean, creepy puppets. The sound track consist of one, what sounds like, ex-hippy playing guitar and singing. Trust me, when this was made, kids would have been better off with scrubby the street cleaner or what ever!