charlesrbowers &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:charlesrbowers @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:07:30 +0200 Egged On (Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller + Ted Sears, 1926) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-nx1b <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Egged On (Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller + Ted Sears, 1926)/div div class="month" Jan/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 17/div div class="occasion" inventions/div div class="img" Egged On (1926)/div div class="caption" Charley working his Rube Goldberger-esque egg-rubberizing contraption./div div class="txt" An invention for Benjamin Franklin's birthday. Inventor Charley (Charles R. Bowers) comes up with an ingenious method to make eggs break-proof for transport by rubberizing them. "… as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." ### – Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography Bowers was an almost-forgotten silent era comedian, filmmaker, and animator. In more recent years, his groundbreaking stop-motion comedy has found a new, well-deserved, interest./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #inventions #birthday #CharlesRBowers #HaroldLMuller #TedSears #eggs #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #slapstick #surrealism #StopMotion #USA #1920s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Egged On (Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller + Ted Sears, 1926)

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Egged On (1926)

Charley working his Rube Goldberger-esque egg-rubberizing contraption.

An invention for Benjamin Franklin's birthday. Inventor Charley (Charles R. Bowers) comes up with an ingenious method to make eggs break-proof for transport by rubberizing them.

“… as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.”

– Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography

Bowers was an almost-forgotten silent era comedian, filmmaker, and animator. In more recent years, his groundbreaking stop-motion comedy has found a new, well-deserved, interest.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #inventions #birthday #CharlesRBowers #HaroldLMuller #TedSears #eggs #ShortFilm #SilentFilm #comedy #slapstick #surrealism #StopMotion #USA #1920s ★★★½

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