Produced by the Meyer Studios and Alexandersson & De Geer Bildproduktion HB with support from Garantinämnden for shorts and children films.

With "The Laundramat", they recieved fame, wiggings and very little money. But Alexandersson & De Geer Bildproduktion (founded in 1971) had other great assets besides money; a whole bunch of left-over film scenes, and the old Meyer foundary, a wonderful building full of possibilities. The facilities, rented on a year-to-year basis since 1981, were christianed, suitably enough, Meyer Studios. And if there wasn't enough money to make feature-films, one could always make shorts.

It is the year 2065. The Professor of the archaeological institute at the University of Stockholm has one of his PH.Ds, the young Beyaz, ressurect the condemned excevation of the Meyer Studios. The mission is very risky and the student bids his lover farewell.

In these old studios he finds masses of perforated strips that can be used for his thesis on the struggle for existance during the latter half of the 20th century. That was a difficult time for man. One little mistake could cost them their entire provisions. The daily anxieties they felt are impossible for us understand.

The research student titles his thesis, "The Perforated Epoch". He finds an old projector within the ruins and ends up showing the film-strips to his lover. He comments: "This is the only way to tell their story. Everything was perforated in those days."

16mm: Swedish Film Institute