[MacDV] Re: OT: must see TV!

Erica Sadun erica at mindspring.com
Mon Jun 2 11:54:27 PDT 2003


>This bit is interesting hmmm...
>"The idea for the advert derived partly from the old children's game 
>Mouse Trap, and from the wacky engineering of Caractacus Potts's 
>breakfast-making machine in the Sixties film Chitty Chitty Bang 
>Bang. "
>
>So much for credit where credit is due... or due diligence. In light 
>of this. "This is a direct take from some German (Swiss?) artists 
>whose original work "Der Lauf der Dinge" (from the 80s I believe)"

Rube Goldberg

http://www.rube-goldberg.com/html/gallery.htm

-- Erica



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