The old Schoolhouse Rock educational cartoons from the '70s!

Old 50s/60s/70s cartoons

In a galaxy far far away... oh never mind. LONG before there were fan films, heck long before there were camcorders, there was School Lost. This may not be THE oldest fan film, but it's got to be ONE of the oldest.

School Lost was a labor of love of the class of 1978 of Ward Melville High School, Setauket NY. Video taped in stunning Black and White over a period of 3 years in our spare time, after school and during summer vacations, on a shoe string budget from our own pockets. It's a satirical poke at the science fiction genre, with obvious references to Star Trek, Star Wars, Lost in Space, Space 1999, Andromeda Strain and even Monty Python.

SYNOPSIS: Ward Melville High School is blasted into space by a physics experiment in the science lab gone wrong. Quick thinking by the students (and lots of duct tape to seal the windows) has converted the school into a make-shift spacecraft (now dubbed the USS Melville).

The Melville is now lost in space, searching for a new world to settle on. However, they are being chased across the galaxy by their nemesis Leer, a renegade substitute teacher who chases them in a spacecraft shaped like a Volkswagen Beatle. Leer and his fanatical followers, the Leeralien "Seppies" are intent on bringing the students of the Melville back to Earth to force them to join his alternative education program SEP (Student Enrichment Program).