The Only Movie to Ever Launch a Disease

If you’ve never heard of Ambulatory Mortosis (AM), it’s probably because it isn’t real. But when Captains of Industry Principals, Fred and Ted put their minds together, things that you didn’t think were a reality, start to become exactly that.

It all began when they decided to make a short film together. Fred and Ted wanted their work to be seen on the film festival circuit to demonstrate both their comedic charm and filmmaking abilities. Thus, There Once Was a Man From Pawtucket was born.

The movie is about a happily married elderly couple, the Wingtight’s, who “live” in Cranston, Rhode Island. Loosely based on Ted’s in-laws, the plot features a woman so preoccupied with clipping coupons she doesn’t realize her husband has been dead for five years. He has a rare condition known as Ambulatory Mortosis (he’s basically a walking stiff).

The actor who played Mr. Wingtight played such a convincing dead person, that the film crew truly believed he suffered from ”AM”. Fred and Ted quickly added a public service announcement to the end of the film, and set up a website for the American Ambulatory Mortosis Foundation http://www.fredandted.com/Mortosis/ where visitors could do a self-assessment for the disease and join a support group. A new disease was born, along with Fred and Ted’s filmmaking careers. The film appeared in festivals across the United States and was selected to open the Providence Film Festival, where Fred and Ted solicited donations from the audience for the treatment and prevention of AM. Fred and Ted decline to state where the money was spent, but rumor has it that beer was involved. Soon after, Fred and Ted were hired to make serious films in healthcare and other industries.