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The itch of the golden nit: the formerly lost uk short film nobody talks bout,

In 2010, the british art gallery tate opened up the tate film project, a website/project which aimed to get kids (aged 5-13) interested in art by making their own movie!

over 34,000 kids submitted character designs, plot ideas, script lines, etc (all the participants broke a world record for the most participants on a collaborative animated film project) for the project and aardman (yee that aardman,) helped animated it, and on the 14th of june, 2011, the film, titled the itch of the golden nit was screened at the tate britan, and then aired on bbc on the 29th,

plot: the 28 minute short film follows beanie, a normal 11 year old boy (voiced by a real boy, bobby fuller) who one day finds out his older sister beryl has been shrunk, his mom and dad also shrunk and abducted by the narcissitic villain evil stella and her sidekick fireboy.....and the sun is dying, the sun is powered by the titular golden nit, a talking nit, which has found itself on beanie's head. beanie and his sister beryl go to the superhero gadget store superco, and meet 10-heart hero, a superhero (well...every 10 minutes he's cursed to turn into a chaotic supervillain) who helps the 2, beanie and beryl, armed with nothing but lazer lip gloss and blend-in pants, go on a adventure that takes the 3 to space, a pirate ship, and a creepy swamp/forest.) can beanie save his parents, stop evil stella and revive the sun before the entire universe ends up destroyed?

the film was lost media for quite som time, until last year, 2023, where out of the blue, it was uploaded!