Movies from grade school

After watching Homer Price tinkering with his Uncle's doughnut machine:

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I mentioned Homer Price to some friends from grade school in an email, one counter suggestion was:

source:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08QDu2pGtkc  

Hemo the Magnificent directed by Frank Capra with Richard Carlson, Sterling Holloway and of course Dr. Frank Baxter.  I didn't know as a kid that Dr. Frank was an English professor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_C._Baxter

Of course there were a whole series of movies with Dr. Frank Baxter but maybe we'll save those for another post.  However the sciencey movie that I remember was:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRzl1wHc43I

Our Friend the Atom by the Disney folks.  As Walt mentions there was a companion book:

https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.507282

Unfortunately as Dr. Watters informed us in Chemistry 101 at UWM in 1974, the whole nuclear industry was predicated on breeder reactors - we never have really nailed those down at industrial scale - neither has anyone else that I know of - and also, the result would have been a plutonium economy, yikes !  If we have to rely on fissionable U-235 there is only so much in the ground, just like oil or coal it is a finite resource.  This is not even worrying about waste or re-processing.

I think I'd rather watch the more amateurish doughnut movie than the big budget science movies - I feel asleep re-watching Our Friend the Atom this time -  almost like a latter day episode of NOVA !

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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