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Wonder World
  • 11/11/2023

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Fun
Transcript
00:00 [music]
00:03 Hop on your pogo stick, your pogo stick, your pogo stick.
00:07 Hop on your pogo stick and hop right through the day.
00:11 Who cares if rubber's short? Just slap it off and be a sport.
00:15 Hop on your pogo stick just like a kid at play.
00:19 No stopping for red lights, no worry over headlights.
00:23 No fenders or bumpers, nor monthly notes on puddle jumpers.
00:27 Who needs a limousine that's always out of gasoline?
00:31 Hop on your pogo stick and laugh your cares away.
00:37 Before the invention of the automobile, cities were of necessity confined to small congested areas.
00:45 With the advent of the motor car, cities spread out.
00:49 Engineers designed scientific highways to speed workers to and from their jobs.
00:56 Then suddenly came the gasoline and rubber shortage.
01:00 The worker was face to face with a serious transportation problem.
01:04 For instance, A lives here, but works at B, while C works at D and lives at E.
01:10 Then there's F, who must go to H. I must travel 45 miles to J and K 30 to L.
01:15 M and X to and fro from P's and Q. Y thither and hither to Z minus X over Y plus A divided by Q equals the distance traveled.
01:23 The situation is indeed a mess.
01:27 Blueprints flooded the patent office.
01:31 From every walk of life, thousands of resourceful citizens submitted solutions.
01:36 We cannot afford to overlook a single one of them.
01:39 For instance, here's an idea submitted by an animal lover of breakneck Long Island, who says, quote,
01:45 "There ain't no priorities on Tomcat." Unquote.
01:52 [chatter]
01:56 A mailman who doesn't care about walking on his day off claims,
02:00 "With this handy dandy walker cycle, I do my walking sitting down."
02:05 Necessity being the mother of invention, this ingenious hot carrier says,
02:15 "When that old quitting whistle blows, I'm giving meself a lift home in me old wheelbarrow."
02:22 Getting the children to and from their schools has always been a problem,
02:29 but now they have their play and get to school on time besides.
02:33 A Hollywood drugstore cowboy deprived of his station wagon improvised this system on the spur of the moment.
02:39 "Wee-haw! Dog gone for a while, I thought I'd have to learn how to ride a horse."
02:45 And here's one by a traveling salesman from Sitting Bull, Montana, who spent most of his time in hotel lobbies.
02:53 "I used to suffer from arthritis, 'cause all I ever done was sit on my chair at the office.
03:02 Now I gets home, exercise, and keeps healthy with this patent applied for exercycle."
03:09 "Tires or no tires, I'm not giving up my golf game."
03:15 This golf enthusiast combines business with pleasure as he actually drives to work on his Model T.
03:28 (music)
03:30 Four putts and he's parked. You'd be surprised how few golf balls he loses.
03:41 (music)
03:43 Pumping politician polls precinct in public primaries. Pumps as he stumps.
03:52 This popular public personality predicts, "It is a pleasure and a privilege to personally point with pride and praise
04:00 to the perfect performance and propulsion of this pump perambulator."
04:03 (music)
04:05 While a defense worker on the swing shift defies this swinging chariot.
04:11 (music)
04:13 An air-raid warden who's been staying up late nights was struck with this thought.
04:21 "Yeah, inventing things is kind of a hobby with me, see?
04:25 So I put on these skates and my official equipment, see?
04:28 And now it gets me a good strong magnet, see?
04:30 And by golly, the darn thing works. Like this, see?"
04:34 (music)
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04:39 However, if the thousands of ideas submitted, not all were as successful as those we have just witnessed.
05:01 Countless experiments were doomed to bitter failure.
05:05 Then, like a bolt from the blue, came the solution.
05:08 The answer to a nation's needs.
05:10 A simple device once discarded as a child's toy, yet now bids fair to completely replace the automobile.
05:16 Ladies and gentlemen, the pogo stick!
05:19 (music)
05:21 Let us observe a practical demonstration by a satisfied customer.
05:27 A defense worker who lives some distance from his job.
05:30 (music)
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05:35 It allows the pogoist to retain the habits to which he has grown accustomed.
05:48 (music)
05:50 Little shortcuts may be used to save valuable time.
06:01 (music)
06:03 The health of the pogoist is improved by the fresh air and exercise.
06:07 He arrives at his work all hopped up with enthusiasm, ready to leap into his day's work.
06:13 (music)
06:15 Sunday drivers, accustomed to pleasure trips to the country,
06:26 are able to see for the first time what lies beyond the billboards
06:30 and are amazed at the beauties of nature.
06:33 (music)
06:35 Approximately 90% can be saved on highway surfacing alone.
06:41 It has been suggested this saving of concrete could be dropped on Tokyo or Berlin.
06:47 The pogo stick solves the parking problem.
06:51 Statistics show that between 30 and 40 pogo sticks may be parked in the space occupied by one automobile.
06:57 (music)
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07:02 The pogo stick is an all-weather conveyance.
07:08 The modern streamlined design of the pogo stick gives smooth performance at high speed.
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