Shrinkel and Stretchel



Shrinkel and Stretchel was an industrial film made for Pak-Nit products in 1965 which spoofs the Hansel and Gretel story. The film starred two characters identified two years earlier in an issue of TV Guide as Sue and Billy, playing here The RX Twins, and a witch who would eventually become known as Taminella Grinderfall.

Presented by Compax Corp., the total duration of the film clocks in at over two minutes and was filmed in color. A narrator provides the telling of the story which involves Shrinkel and his sister Stretchel having become lost for years in the woods only to come across a gingerbread house inhabited by a witch. Naturally, she instantly shoves them into an oven for dinner. But to her surprise, the two emerge unfaultered as they reveal their true names: the "Pak-nit RX Twins."

The product has a twin effect, as it prevents both shrinking and stretching to fabrics in the dryer. It would appear to the witch, that our heroes are named simply as a front. The film concludes on a happy note, as the witch discovers that she too can benefit from shape control.