Gizmo!

A modern compilation of film clips of whacky inventions, crazy stunts, and derring-do from the 1920s-50s. Very campy. Imagine if YouTube had been invented in 1930, and you’d get this.

— KK

Gizmo!
Howard Smith
1977, 80 min.

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