Professor Bric-a-Brac's Inventions (1908)

• 79%
• 1908
• Comedy

Mr. Bric-a-Brac is a wonderful inventor and has just completed a magnet which attracts everything with which it comes in contact. We see him saunter into the street and the first thing he meets is a nurse maid in a fight with a man. He keeps his distance and turns one of the cranks on the magnet and mixes them up in a free-for-all fight. Then he goes to a café, where some men are at a game of cards, and when he starts the machine they whirl around in a circle and scramble in all directions. Next he mixes up three women and a masher and leaves them in a heap on the street. Finally, he goes to his home and draws himself through the window, and when he looks out he recognizes a friend and draws him up with the aid of his magnet. He then supplies the friend with one, and they start out on another tour and turn everything and everybody topsy-turvy before they get back. On reaching his room once more something goes wrong with the machine, and it turns everything in the place upside down, throwing him on the floor, and piling the furniture on top of him. He releases himself and readjusts the machine and gives up exhausted from the strenuous life.