Techno-Cracked

Techno-Cracked
Flip the Frog series
Directed by	Ub Iwerks
Produced by	Pat Powers
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Shamus Culhane
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s)	March 20, 1933
Color process	Black and White
Running time	8 minutes
Language	English

Techno-Cracked is a 1933 Celebrity Productions, Inc. animated short, directed by Ub Iwerks.

In this satire of the Technocracy, Flip the Frog is nearly killed by a menacing robot he builds to work for him.

Flip would rather not mow the lawn. He reads an article from "Unpopular Mechanics" entitled "Technocracy: Why be a Slave - The Mechanical Man Works While You Sleep". Flip makes his robot out of household parts but gives it a Jack-o'-lantern for a head. The mechanical man cannot follow directions and begins mowing down everything in sight. Flip blows up the robot with a stick of dynamite and finishes the lawn by himself.

When the robot mows the welcome mat it reveals the word Nerts, a possible reference to either the card game or to a popular expression of the time -- "nertz". Some have speculated that Techno-Cracked may have been photographed in two-strip Technicolor.

Clips of this can be seen in the music video for Bamboo's Bamboogie.

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