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FLICKS FILM AND VIDEO FILE : See Sweden for $5 : The latest in the county’s offering of travelogues will be shown Friday night.

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Has anyone noticed the abundance of travel film series around town? Well, Moorpark College’s community services department has another one. It’s 1991-1992 season will kick off Friday night with “Swedish Holiday” by Los Angeles filmmaker Stan La Rue.

The film begins in southern Sweden, makes stops at Sofiero Castle and the chateau region and then moves on to Gothenburg, the country’s second-largest city. La Rue also shows viewers Lake Vanern (Sweden’s largest lake), Riddarholmen, Stockholm, Drottningholm Palace, the island of Oland, Sigtuna (Sweden’s oldest town), the Tannforsen waterfall and Lake Storsjon and its version of the Loch Ness monster.

The film will be shown in the Moorpark College Campus Center beginning at 7:30. Admission is $5 (general) and $4.50 (seniors). The college is located at 7075 Campus Road. For more information, call 378-1408.

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Note: Those with remarkably good memories may recognize “Swedish Holiday” as the film shown by the Ventura College community service’s department last January. See, you can go home again. At least to Sweden.

Speaking of second times around, if you didn’t get to see the “British Animation Invasion” at Santa Barbara’s Victoria Street Theater last month, you may want to check it out when the Ojai Film Society brings it to the Ojai Playhouse on Sunday.

It’s a 105-minute compilation of animated shorts from England, highlighted by three works from Aardman Animations. Aardman created the Academy Award-winning animated short “Creature Comforts,” which will be on the program. (By the way, the company also created the “Sledgehammer” video that accompanied the Peter Gabriel song of the same name.)

The animation invasion, presented by Expanded Entertainments, has made the run of Southern and central California theaters, including the Nuart in West Los Angeles. Show time is 4:30 p.m. at the playhouse, 145 E. Ojai Ave.

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