Gizmo: Inventors and their strange creations (1977) [video]

My family has been watching this movie since as early as I can remember.

If you can't sit through the initial parts the real fun starts around here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaVwqraUKxA).

It's largely a collection of clips from early inventors showing off their amazingly horrible and amazing creations. You've likely seen many of the clips individually as they are offered used in other films and commercials.

It's hilarious, insightful and inspirational. Hope others enjoy. Hard to find (I have the VHS).

I saw this in the '80s. A PBS station in Los Angeles showed it once, and someone I knew taped it.

He also had another amusing movie taped off of that same PBS station, that is even harder to find than Gizmo. That is "A Natural History of the Water Closet: A Documentary Cantata" (1974) [1], apparently created by WITF-TV [2]. That is exactly what the title says. It is a history of the water closet, done largely in song in the form of a cantata.

It's a shame that these old things are disappearing.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404271/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

[2] http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/21313634?selectedversion=NBD265...