The Light Bulb Conspiracy
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2010, Film, 75 min, Documentary, French, France, MoviePedia score 71
The untold story of Planned Obsolescence
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.
Directed by Cosima Dannoritzer
Cast
- Richard Jones as Self - Livermore Lightbulb Committee
- Molly Malcolm as Narrator (English version)
- Steve Bunn as Self - Collector
- Markus Krajewski as Self - Weimar's Bauhaus University
- Lynn Owens as Self
- Helmut Höge as Self - Lightbulbs Historian
- Warner Philips as Self - Great-grandson of the Founders of Philips
- Nicols Fox as Self - Essayist and Journalist
- Marcos López Merayo as Self - Computer Expert
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