Finished at last! Prints are available through my Zazzle storefront.

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This ambitious release of the mid-fifties combined live action and rotoscoped animation in a titillating thriller about a flying-saucer invasion by beautiful but perilous alien fox-women. It was an all-or-nothing gamble for the small studio that produced it—but the production and marketing budgets and the star power of larger houses overshadowed it. The film failed at the box office and as a result dragged its parent down into bankruptcy. All assets were sold piecemeal at auction to repay creditors, and both movie and studio faded into obscurity, forgotten even by most film buffs.

Only one copy of the theater poster is known to survive, discovered by a collector at a yard sale in the early nineties. Unfortunately, the years had not been kind to it: one corner was dog-eared, the opposite side sported a significant tear, and the inks were faded and damaged from exposure to ultraviolet light and skin oils. Still, it is worthy of preservation, if only because of the film’s peculiar history, and prints of it are now available to the discerning aficianado.

. . . Well, not really. Actually, it was inspired by Donald Fagen’s song “Tomorrow's Girls”, from his 1993 album Kamakiriad. The design echoes the song's campy atmosphere and the era it satirizes, even to the sulfur-yellow background featured in so many movie posters of the time. “Fleischerscope” is an homage to Fleischer Studios, whose pioneering work in animation included invention of the rotoscope process. Thanks go to Baron Engel,  baroncoon, who kindly provided an appropriately goofy ray-gun design not used in a previous project, and to Christina  smudge Hanson, who provided a made-to-order flying saucer model.