Ciao!

Hello, movie lovers, and welcome to the opening of another offering at the Comfy Chair cinema.

Talk about happy accidents. The latest film, "Ciao!" is just that.

See, the movie started out as nothing more than an experiment. We at the Comfy Chair have seen a thousand times old movies where a character is driving, and it's quite obvious that the "driving" is simply the character sitting in a stationary car and has a screen behind them containing the road and background.

And we here at the Comfy Chair wanted to see if we could do that for ourselves.

Last week WATCC got invaluable technical assistance from friend the DeepFatFriar (who will be appearing in the credits as "boa"). He came up with the camera placement idea and made it work. Afterward we had 25 minutes of car trip around B'burg that was beautiful - all that remained was editing it to a suitable length, putting a car and driver in front of it, and letting the good times roll.

However, the good times, which consisted of Comfy Chair favorite Sherman in his convertible, did not roll. Filming the finished product was fairly miserable, but was completed, edited, given titles, and wrapped up. The Comfy Chair was left with a finished movie that was over seven minutes long and not making us happy.

But sometimes things take a turn, movie lovers, and on Saturday while in B'burg, that turn came. See, we here at the Comfy Chair had gone to B'burg with more toys in tow, for we had the idea of a little "extra" to have as a companion piece to the original driving video. It would be about a minute of Sherman on his Vespa toodling through town.

WATTCC took a few minutes to film that, brought it back to the Comfy Chair Labs, and started playing with it. And realized that our seven minute original was not the newest Comfy Chair movie - this was. And so the Comfy Chair went all out and played with it some more and here is your new Comfy Chair offering.

So sit back, relax, get a snack (sold in the lobby at a nominal fee - please, we need the revenue, and after attending the real cinema last week, we at the Comfy Chair realize we're underpricing our snacks), and enjoy Sherman in "Ciao!"