Techno-Cracked

Techno-Cracked is a 1933 Celebrity Productions, Inc. animated short, directed by Ub Iwerks and featuring Flip the Frog.[1]

Techno-Cracked
Directed byUb Iwerks
Produced byPat Powers
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byShamus Culhane
Color processBlack and White (black-and-white)
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
April 12, 1933
Running time
8 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Synopsis

In this satire of the Technocracy, Flip the Frog is nearly killed by a menacing robot he builds to work for him.

Flip would rather not mow the lawn. He reads an article from "Unpopular Mechanics" entitled "Technocracy: Why be a Slave - The Mechanical Man Works While You Sleep". Flip makes his robot out of household parts but gives it a Jack-o'-lantern for a head. The mechanical man cannot follow directions and begins mowing down everything in sight. Flip blows up the robot with a stick of dynamite and finishes the lawn by himself.

Notes and comments

When the robot mows the welcome mat it reveals the word Nerts, a possible reference to either the card game or to a popular expression of the time -- "nertz". Some have speculated that Techno-Cracked may have been photographed in two-strip Technicolor.

gollark: Oh yes, right, you're working on somewhat useful stuff.
gollark: ⁢ you.
gollark: What are you working on?
gollark: He was meant to be doing the obstacle course thing, didn't particularly do anything, and was told by Mr Wilde to work out how to use the xbox controller, which is doomed to failure I think.
gollark: I know Joshua *isn't*, at least?

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 81. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.


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