The Eager Minds

Duration: 1200 ft.

Year Published: 1955

Creator: RKO-Pathe Inc.

Complete Record: little boy looking out window during a thunder storm. reading in bed. starts to switch on and off old fashioned light bulb. reenactment of Thomas Edison with light bulb. CU of him breaking the light bulb. The 1st generator, 1st electric lights, shot of telephone lines, shot of 1st electric range, sewing machine, fan, toaster, iron, vacuum cleaner, washing. 1st electron tubes, 1st radio, shots of power plants and factories, CU of printing presses, telephone lines, and power plants. Manufacturing of light bulbs. great factory shots wire being coiled. Great assembly line shots of light bulbs being made and spinning. Factory shots of dairy farm with eggs on conveyer belts. electric railroad systems. radar. shot of motion picture clapper. camera man making a dolly shot. neon signs, Broadway. Man coming home from work entering a typical 50’s kitchen, kissing wife and son. Great 50’s kitchen scene. Great shots of lights lighting up fabulous deco environments. Man and woman toasting glasses at dinning room table. bizarre shot of 50’s kids in class room with lighting fixtures descending up into the ceiling, very futuristic. A 50’s home tanning salon bathing beauty. Woman holding bouquet of fluorescent lights. Fabulous woman in red in over the top deco home smoking cigarette, sits in a matching red Eames chair with strange shadow projected on the wall. Modern space-age kitchens of the future. incredible shot of recipes being projected on a screen. Shot of 1st transistors, pocket radios, portable TVs. more great factory and assembly line stuff. cubed steel on conveyer belt. scientist with microscope, doctors watching surgery on TV. 1st X-ray films of man drinking. shot of 1st home video cameras with little boy on TV. Great shot of woman answering a visual telephone. Atomic explosion, mushroom cloud