With Jay Edison as the inventor and Wheezer his assistant, the gang contrived an automobile of unusual construction; an automobile that will look like a submarine..

You should watch this if you have twenty minutes to kill and you like seeing 1920s kids pretend to be engineers. It is definitely worth it for the weirdness of the car alone. If you hate silent movies or kids being loud without making any noise, you will probably hate this. It is very much a product of its time, for b...

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"You should watch this if you have twenty minutes to kill and you like seeing 1920s kids pretend to be engineers. It is definitely worth it for the weirdness of the car alone. If you hate silent movies or kids being loud without making any noise, you will probably hate this. It is very much a product of its time, for better or worse. The whole thing starts with Jay Edison being a little inventor. He has Wheezer as his assistant, and Wheezer mostly just looks like he is trying to figure out what..."
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