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ABOUT THIS EPISODE
We look at the TIMELY and IMPORTANT subject of HUMAN MINIATURISATION in the movies, with special emphasis on THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, FANTASTIC VOYAGE and INNERSPACE, but touching lightly on DOWNSIZING, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN, BODY TROOPERS and FIRST PAVILION and with audio references to DOCTOR CYCLOPS, ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE, ANTMAN, etc...
Can human beings be greatly reduced in size (and injected into Martin Short) or are we just asking for the moon? What of the tremendous costs involved? How small is too small? And do the molecules in our fingernails contain their own tiny little universes?
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Ian Chodikoff (all the way from Canada)
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