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1) The jerk
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
2) Wonka
Author
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Formats
Description
"Tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate‐maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today"--
3) Joy
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
4) Tesla
Publisher
Publication Broadcasting Service
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Meet Nikola Tesla, the genius engineer and tireless inventor whose technology revolutionized the electrical age of the 20th century. Although eclipsed in fame by Edison and Marconi, it was Tesla's vision that paved the way for today's wireless world.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join a brilliant young inventor named Lewis as he sets off on a time-traveling journey to find the family he never knew. In the world of 2037, hip-hoppin' frogs and dogs that wear glasses are as common as talking dinosaurs. In an amazing twist, Lewis discovers that the fate of the future rests in his hands, but he can't save it alone. He meets the wacky Robinson family, who help him learn to keep moving forward and never stop believing in himself....
Pub. Date
[2010]
Formats
Description
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs tells the story of an eccentric wannabe scientist, Flint Lockwood. His latest contraption is a miraculous device designed to solve the world hunger crisis. But when Flint bites off more than he can chew, he sets in motion a global disaster of epic proportions.
9) Flubber
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brilliant but befuddled Professor Phillip Brainard is on the brink of inventing a revolutionary energy source and missing his wedding for the third time! He develops a miraculous elastic goo, flubber, that enables anything it's applied to, to bounce super high and fast.
10) Robots
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Un joven inventor se embarca en un viaje para intentar una posici?n en una empresa dirigida por su ?dolo, maestro inventor Gran Soldador; en el camino se encuentra con nuevos y viejos amigos del robot que le ayuden a luchar por mantener su posici?n en la empresa.
A young inventor embarks on a journey to attempt a position in a company run by his idol, master inventor Bigweld; along the way he encounters new and old robot friends who help him battle...
Formats
Description
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon Lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastic adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.
13) Tesla
Publisher
VVS Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, his interactions with Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan's daughter Anne, and his breakthroughs in transmitting electrical power and light.
Publisher
The Kids Are Alright Productions
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being evicted, hardworking single mom Elaine Cheng tries to maintain a normal life for her children, Raymond and Tina. They squat in a Boston apartment as Elaine juggles a number of jobs, including working for a questionable pyramid scheme. When Elaine doesn't return home one night, nobody knows the kids are home alone, and they are left to fend for themselves. Raymond, a budding inventor, realizes he needs to come up with a plan to take care...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recount the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electrical engineering genius. Tesla's surprising inventions are revealed in his autobiographical and scientific writings.
16) Codegirl
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join high school-aged girls from around the world as they try to better their communities through technology and collaboration. The Technovation Challenge aims to empower girls worldwide to develop apps for an international competition.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (174 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The complete six part series featuring amazing contraptions from around the world. Wallace and Gromit take an enthusiastic look at some real-life cracking contraptions, from gadgets that help around the home to the mind-boggling world of space travel and much more in between. From their self-built television studio, Wallace introduces films of inventors from around the world, and unveils some of his very own creations.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and '40s and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and Bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for Snow White and Cat Woman and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII.
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