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Birds Do It
Soupy Sales is Flying High...and the race for space - is up in the air!
Overview
Melvin Byrd, who dreams of being a scientist, is a Cape Kennedy "miniscule molecular particle surveillance monitor" - in short, a janitor. His job is to keep a major rocket project completely dust-free, and this he does with his own hilariously fantastic inventions - including a literal attack on dirt by a "knight on a white horse". In his work, he meets Judy, a chimp involved in a top-secret project, which leads Melvin into the one room strictly off-limits to him. Not until he has entered the project room does Melvin learn that any man entering it will be negatively ionized - making him fly like a bird.
Key Crew
Director: Andrew Marton
Screenplay: Art Arthur, Arnie Kogen
Producer: Stanley Colbert
Story: Leonard B. Kaufman
Director of Photography: Howard Winner
