("The Vintage Car of the Future," on display at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Photo by Jeff Powell.)
The British cartoonist Rowland Emett (1906-1990) should have a renaissance. He drew crazily detailed cartoons of the strangest trolleys/blimps/etc. you ever saw. Before he did the drawing, he created a "whimsical kinetic drawing" of it, according to this British Pathé short:
Related video shorts:
Emett's Tractor (1960)
Emett's Computer (1966)
Emett's Ideal Home (1967)
Ontario Science Centre collection of machines designed and built by kinetic artist Rowland Emett
Emett's Computer (1966)
Emett's Ideal Home (1967)
Ontario Science Centre collection of machines designed and built by kinetic artist Rowland Emett
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This is great stuff - thanks for finding it, Mike!
I met Emett's ex-gardener working as a waiter in Corfu a couple of years ago. He said that Emett was a complete gentleman. He also witnessed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's progress from rough drawing to final build in Emett's workshop.
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