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The Man Who Loved Machines
19839 min 13 secFilm: Animation, Fiction
Direction: Sidney Goldsmith
Production: Sidney GoldsmithDavid Verrall
Script: Sidney Goldsmith
A humorous, animation science film that introduces students to the nature of energy and energy conservation, as well as to the second law of thermodynamics, entropy. The points are underscored by the observations of an all-seeing dog in need of a doghouse, whose master, though obsessed with machines, is finally convinced that the simplest tool is sometimes the most energy-efficient!
Subject categories
- Sciences > Physics
Credits
- director
- Sidney Goldsmith
- producer
- Sidney Goldsmith
- script
- Sidney Goldsmith
- animation
- Sidney Goldsmith
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- animation camera
- Jacques Avoine
- sound editing
- Bill Graziadei
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- narrator
- Terrence Labrosse
- music
- Peter Mendieta