movies_creation
American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Something for Nothing
- Year
- 1940
- Abstract
- Cartoonist Rube Goldberg creates a little animation to explain how fuel is converted to power in the modern automobile engine.
- Notes
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Produced: Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsor: Chevrolet Motor Company
Run Time: 8:47
Audio/Visual: Sd., b&w - Keyword
- Rube Goldberg;Automobiles;Engineering;Automobiles;Engineering
- Theme
- Chevrolet Motor Company / Advertising / Car industry / Rube Cartoons
- Review
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Rube Goldberg was a classic gentleman who thought up inventions and drew them out to pretend to ease our work - in the most uncanny, roundabout, and comical way. His drawing talents and his ideas are the results of a fanstastic imagination. Do we remember the Mattel board game back in the '60s, called "Mouse Trap?" This was a Rube Goldberg drawing taken for a board game. How the construction of the mouse trap began is by the spin of the arrow spinner, allowed players to assemble this mouse trap, piece by piece, until the winner "cranks the handle" to start the capturing of the mouse procedure. What a joy to play that game as a kid with the neighbour kids. I remember back in high school, we did that demostration of gasoline also, by putting air/fuel mixture in a cylinder (a coffee can) placing a ball that would just fit the diameter of the can by tamping it down in the can that had a spark plug welded to the center end of the can, and touched a battery to ignite that fuel mixture in that can. That ball really took off up in the skies and what an explosion that made, but it was fun and educational about the fuels that we use.
(Reviewer: op712) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F