Honda Accord Cog Commericial
The Way Things Go by Peter Fischli and David Weiss
The Better Mousetrap by Tom Cat
From www.wikipedia.org: A Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately overengineered apparatus that performs a very simple task in very indirect and convoluted fashion. Goldberg's drawings, for example, almost always included a live animal which was expected to perform part of the sequence of tasks. The term first appeared in Webster's Third New International Dictionary with the definition, "accomplishing by extremely complex roundabout means what actually or seemingly could be done simply." The expression has been dated as originating in the United States around 1930[1] to describe Rube Goldberg's illustrations of "absurdly-connected machines".
Tex Avery's Ventriloquist Cat (1950) I guess there was also a later version in 1957 called The Cat's Meow. The only differences are that The Cat's Meow was filmed in Cinemascope and the cat's fur was orange instead of black. I learned this because I wrote to a Tom & Jerry enthusiast website and they were kind enough to tell me the name of the films back in the days before YouTube. I wanted the "Me-ow Me-ow" for my ringtone. I gotta set that up again. Thanks to Kevin Langley for the Sketches: click image to enlarge click image to enlarge
I guess there was also a later version in 1957 called The Cat's Meow. The only differences are that The Cat's Meow was filmed in Cinemascope and the cat's fur was orange instead of black. I learned this because I wrote to a Tom & Jerry enthusiast website and they were kind enough to tell me the name of the films back in the days before YouTube. I wanted the "Me-ow Me-ow" for my ringtone. I gotta set that up again.
Thanks to Kevin Langley for the Sketches:
click image to enlarge