[net.movies] Ball Bearing Movie

thoth@tellab1.UUCP (Marcus Hall) (01/27/86)

My girlfriend has been trying to find a version of a movie or a children's
special, or something (I'm not sure which).

It has been shown on the kid's after school special at least once.  It was
made in England, I think.

A kid finds a ball bearing looking thing that came out of a spaceship.  He
takes it home and drops it into a cake batter, and the ball bearing sucks
up all the batter (not sure why the kid would drop a ball bearing into
cake batter, but anyhow...).  After it eats up more food, the kid takes
it to a supermarket where it starts eating more food.  Some antagonist
adult is trying to get the ball bearing and follows the kid to the
supermarket.  While he chases the ball bearing around the store, the
spaceship drops a lot of ball bearings and they knock the antagonist
down and roll him away.  The ball bearings then go back to the
spaceship and leave.

There's obviously more to it than just this, but I don't think that very
many other movies contain these elements, so this should lead to a unique
match.  We are interested in ANY information about this, like the title
perhaps, or better yet where a tape of it can be had.

Please respond via email.  If many other people are really interested in
the same information, I will summarize.

Thanks.
marcus hall
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