Assignment: Venezuela is a 1950s travelogue picture that extols the benefits of living in Venezuela. An oil company middle-manager is packed off from the USA to go down to Venezuela, and guides show him around and get him acclimated to the culture. Meanwhile, he writes letters home to his family to persuade them that they'll like the coporate housing they'll be in when they join him (and reassure them that he's not getting into any trouble.) An ending occurs that is presented as happy. Compare with Progress Island U.S.A..
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| - Assignment: Venezuela is a 1950s travelogue picture that extols the benefits of living in Venezuela. An oil company middle-manager is packed off from the USA to go down to Venezuela, and guides show him around and get him acclimated to the culture. Meanwhile, he writes letters home to his family to persuade them that they'll like the coporate housing they'll be in when they join him (and reassure them that he's not getting into any trouble.) An ending occurs that is presented as happy. Compare with Progress Island U.S.A..
- Assignment: Venezuela is a 1956 short film that runs for 24 minutes produced by the Creole Petroleum Corporation, created to encourage American employees to work at their location(s) in Venezuela. (Creole was the Venezuelan subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, later renamed Exxon).
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| - Assignment: Venezuela is a 1950s travelogue picture that extols the benefits of living in Venezuela. An oil company middle-manager is packed off from the USA to go down to Venezuela, and guides show him around and get him acclimated to the culture. Meanwhile, he writes letters home to his family to persuade them that they'll like the coporate housing they'll be in when they join him (and reassure them that he's not getting into any trouble.) An ending occurs that is presented as happy. This was one of the "lost" shorts of Mystery Science Theater 3000, for a defunct CD-ROM project. It was first exhibited at one of the Conventio-Cons; later on the video was distributed as an extra on the Rhino DVD for The Killer Shrews. Compare with Progress Island U.S.A..
* Scenery Porn: The director wants you to be able to see everything worth seeing.
* Shout-Out: A young boy getting an injection to the buttocks and reacting in pain is riffed as saying "Spooooock!"
- Assignment: Venezuela is a 1956 short film that runs for 24 minutes produced by the Creole Petroleum Corporation, created to encourage American employees to work at their location(s) in Venezuela. (Creole was the Venezuelan subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, later renamed Exxon). The short shows an American employee of the company arriving at Venezuela to work at the Lake Maracaibo oil fields. His narration serves as the letters he writes to his family. He learns about the country's historic background and sees the country's sights and its cities, which impress him with their modernity. He looks into a temporary housing complex while waiting for a house and learns Spanish while preparing for his family's eventual arrival. The short was riffed for the unproduced Mystery Science Theater 3000 CD-ROM. A rough cut of the short was screened for a live audience at ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama 2: Electric Boogaloo. Video of it has since surfaced online, and it was also included as a special feature on the Rhino Entertainment DVD of The Killer Shrews in the The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 7 collection.
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