Butter Battle Book...

While researching a handful of Dr. Seuss titles in my collection, I came across a live action trailer for Dr. Seuss' Butter Battle Book. I had to share...

The Butter Battle Book, Dr. Seuss's classic cautionary tale, introduces us to the important lesson of respecting differences. The Yooks and Zooks share a love of buttered bread, but animosity brews between the two groups because they prefer to enjoy the tasty treat differently.

According to Ben Reyes of Capital Arts Productions, the production company behind the short:

[This is] a short trailer created for the Ottawa Public Library. It's a live action rendition of Dr Seuss' allegory to the Cold War: The Butter Battle Book. It also pays homage to Dr Strangelove. A huge thank you goes out the Diefenbunker for letting us film in their facility! ...The wall is part of a picture that I photoshopped into a bigger wall, and then using motion tracking software I was able to composite it into the shot.

In the aftermath of my Adventures In Microsoft Access, I was researching various titles in my collection to reconstruct missing and incomplete meta data needed for the next version of the Movie List. The Movie List is a comprehensive database of all of the DVDs in my collection. The current iteration of the Movie List is a hefty PDF file designed for phone-friendly browsing and weighs in at well in excess of 2000 pages.

The trailer for the Butter Battle Book is set in Diefenbunker, an actual Cold-War era bunker originally intended for use by the Canadian government and is now a museum. When I saw the trailer, I was actually quite impressed with look of the short film. Later, while poking around the Capital Arts Production site, I came across Ben Reyes' profile page where one visitor commented that he was not a fan. ☹️ Well, Ben, I am a fan. 😍 So, of course, I had to share. Enjoy.