'A documentary about some of the thousands of inventions that did things we never thought needed doing, or in ways we never considered doing them.'

You really should take the time to watch this film. Pure entertainment.
There's so much amazing footage - a woman in the 1930's travelling across a cable over Times Square by her teeth, very early footage of a guy doing some brilliant parkour in shirt and trousers with a kid on his back, people balancing on the top of really tall buildings....and most of that's in the first 10 minutes.

Quality.

IMDB link - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074573/

3 votes? Pah! Is no-one watching this?

needs a different title i think, pretty damn good though

Maybe that'll work. Is there a VS title writing course I can sign up for?

Maybe some other time

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Self-discarding this video (discard called by original submitter deputydog)

*save

so good

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James, tag as *long please..

good watch.. gotta love it.

Gold Star invocations (long) cannot be executed by Gunter because Gunter is not a Gold Star member - sorry.

Thanks Rickegee, great choice. Ony of my favourite ever posts.

I love the human ornithopter at the beginning

This so needs to be in the Art collective

thank god for blue/green screens

lol absalutly insane i feal like sumone has put a spoon in my brain and stured it

That guy with the beard pounding nails through a board with his bare hands just before the title is Joseph Greenstein, "The Mighty Atom". He was a truly remarkable character. There is a biography of him by Ed Spielman which is worth reading.

Greenstein was very spiritual and all of his feats of strength were done, as he said, with mind over matter.

When Spielman met him, Greenstein was 82-years-old, 5'4" and was straightening horseshoes, bending steel bars across the bridge of his nose and hammering spikes through planks.

I've never seen a film of him before though I've seen many still photos.

Thanks for this.

it's all about the dude blowing up a balloon through his ear.

Seems to be *dead

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