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To Enrich Mankind (1955)

1955 · Ephemeral film · 22 min

Synopsis

A man in white coat talking to Archimedes in room full of stone and bronze busts of famous scientists researchers.

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Running time
22 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★ · What about Gus? · Spuzz · 2005-04-18

Gus, sloppy museum curator (where ARE your gloves?), pooh-poohs the engineering display he's been forced to set up by his office superiors, begins fondling the displays and then is visited by the statue of Archimedes who begins to talk to him. A fairly numbing exercise using lots and lots of archival footage (Hey, it's "Young Man's Fancy"!) and plenty of he-man talk by Archimedes. The guy playing Gus is pretty amusing though.