Machines Are Pointing and Laughing At Me (1936)
Created and Written by Spencer Green
Rating: ********1/2
Summary
Jamison's brilliant satire of the mechanical age, with The Clod making faces at giant machines, shooting rubber bands at them, then feeling sorry about it, getting to know machines, taking them to ball game.
Director
Cast
- James Jamison (The Clod)
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Famous Quotes
(The Clod is placed on a giant rotating platform, facing a huge mechanical box labelled "DOCTOR IN A BOX.")
(Cut to a Technician throwing a switch.)
(The Clod is moved toward one area of Doctor in a Box, where a sphygmomanometer automatically wraps itself around his arm. It begins pumping until The Clod's head starts to inflate.)
(Cut to the Technician, trying to stop the machine.)
(The Doctor in a Box releases The Clod, then unfurls an eye chart. The Clod covers one eye as a huge magnifying glass attached to an electrical arm extends in front of The Clod's face. Unfortunately, the heat from the windows causes a beam of light to burn a hole in The Clod's exposed eye.)
(Cut to the Technician, clearly having problems.)
(The Doctor in a Box tests The Clod's reflexes, hitting him repeatedly with a hammer, harder and harder, until it becomes embedded in his knee. Then, two mechanical arms with rubber gloves extend toward The Clod and grab him as a third mechanical arm appears.)
(Cut to the Technician, kicking his control panel.)
(Close on The Clod, turning his head to cough…and again…and again…and again…and again…)
