A ten-minute-long 1930’s extravaganza presentation about differential gears (Thanks to investigator Jennifer Hurley for bringing this to our attention): BONUS: Video of a much older AND younger set of differential gears: the antikythera mechanism; and of a logo version of same.
Tag: film
Man in white suit Monday night
Next Monday, Sept 6, at 7:00 pm, at the Coolidge Corner Cinema, in Brookline, MA, Marc Abrahams (the man in the blue suit — an Ig Nobel Prize-winning self-perfuming business suit) will introduce a special showing of the classic Alec Guinness film “The Man in the White Suit“. Daniel Rosenberg (the man in the white […]
“Hell Bent for Leather”, a post-horse film
The US government produced this consistently dull, depressing training film to explain to children that, even though horse soldiers no longer ride horses, they are still (as the film’s name says) “Hell Bent for Leather“.
Prison bureaucrats’ training film
The US government produced this consistently dull, depressing training film to give helpful tips to orient new arrivals at the Bureau of Prisons Training Academy.