SPACE CASE – LOW BUDGET FILM
As the main credits finish rolling, a picture of a video clip fades into view and the camera pulls back to reveal the interior of an alien spacecraft. Swirling in front of the instrumentation panels of the ship, separate individual gaseous vapors begin speaking with each other. This is a team of alien research scientists who have been sent to our galaxy to find a cure for their planet’s dying plant life.
Unfortunately for the aliens, their attention has been diverted to the video clip and they fail to notice their ship’s proximity to an Earth satellite. Their ship glances into the satellite and sends them plunging into Earth’s atmosphere. Because of their vaporous forms, none of the aliens are injured, but two of the ship’s instrumentation consoles are severely damaged, as the aliens face the possibility of being stranded on the planet Earth.
Luckily, they had been supplied with molecular converter pills, which allow them to transform into human form. They emerge from their spacecraft to explore the region in hopes of finding a way to return to their home planet.
Their search takes them past a TV appliance store, where one of their pocket instruments, a similarity transmission beam, locks into the transmissions of a rack of televisions which happen to be tuned into a music channel station. By fine-tuning their transmission beam, they discover that Earth has a similar communications frequency to their own planet.
Returning to their spacecraft, they set about feeding data into the ship’s onboard computer which along with some other instruments create an exotically rhythmic melody that drifts out of the spacecraft and catches the ear of Woodward Chase, a down and out ex-music entrepreneur, who becomes so enamored with the music, that he convinces the aliens to allow him to become their manager and make them television stars. The aliens, who are quite anxious to become closer to this medium as a possible avenue to return to their planet, agree to help Chase anyway they can.
Chase introduces them to the world of music entertainment, where with their ship’s computer and instrumentation panels converted into portable instruments, they make an enormous impression on Mimi Dernier, the beautiful young owner of an exclusive music club. An even bigger impression has been made on Ms. Dernier by E. Schnozze, leader of the alien research team, and who has a captivating onstage personality. It’s here in this club where they mingle with the music industry’s idiosyncrasies; struggling musicians, big stars who have already made it, passionate screaming fans, obnoxious record promotion people, and their most important contact Solly Schfeethart, the managing executive of the country’s largest video production house.
Solly introduces them to the field of rock videos and takes them on a tour of his facilities. Solly runs his business like the old time silent movie studios of 1920’s, producing ten different videos at the same time. Solly’s assistants, overworked producers and directors run rampant on the sets as they churn out videos for new age rockers, country western bands, heavy metal groups, Rastafarians, and a Julio Iglesias type singer, Cevapcici, who struggling with homosexual tendencies is trying his best to come off like a macho Latino crooner.
E. Schnozze and the rest of the research team, who know call themselves E. Schnozze and the Vaporz, begin to climb the music industry’s charts by putting out such hits as “Robots can Rocket” “Nuclear Arms & Terrific Legs” and the underground classic Spaceships on Uranus”.
During this time at Solly’s studios, where the band spends quite a lot of time, transmission frequency engineer, D-Doc begins to work on a primitive communication device that will enable the aliens to send a rescue transmission to their home planet.
Meanwhile the recording company that had contracted the Vaporz begins arrangements for a world tour, which starts with a videotaped “live” concert at a large indoor arena. By this time, the Vaporz have received an outstanding amount of publicity and their every move is recorded by the press, which follow the band like a shadow, reporting back to the public even the most trivial of details. Finally, on the day of the big event, with the world watching, the Vaporz put on a sensational show and for the group’s encore they revert back to their vaporous states and with a flood of strange eerie lights, are sucked out of the arena and into the mother ship which has returned to rescue them.
