What on Earth! (film)

What on Earth!
Directed byKaj Pindal
Les Drew
Written byKaj Pindal
Produced byRobert Verrall
Wolf Koenig
Narrated byDonald Brittain
Music byDonald Douglas
Production
company
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Columbia Pictures
Running time
9 min 35 s
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish, French

What on Earth! (French: La Terre est habitée!) is a 1966 National Film Board of Canada animated short co-directed by Les Drew and Kaj Pindal. The film is a mockumentary, introduced in its opening credits as produced by the "National Film Board of Mars" that takes a humorous look at car culture from the point of view of fictional Martians, who mistake automobiles for Earth's true inhabitants and people as their parasites. It attempts to examine the sociology of the automobile as the dominant species on earth, and makes wild guesses about the lifestyle, feeding habits, mating habits and funeral rites of this "species."