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Basic Bucky
An 11-segment video taken from Comprehensive Design: The Legacy of Buckminster Fuller, a Dome-Encapsulated Multi-Media Traveling Exhibit (1990). The clips feature Fuller demonstrating his own futuristic inventions through Nature's Generalized Principles: Leverage, Tension and Compression; Pattern Integrity; Synergy; Universe as Scenario; Artifacts/Inventions: Dymaxion House, Dymaxion Car, Geodesic and Fly's Eye Domes, and Roofs over Cities; Energetic/Synergetic Geometry: Euler's Topology: Angle and Frequency, The Triangle: Basic Structure; The Three Basic Structural Systems; The Vector Equilibrium. 32 minutes.

"Futuro - A New Stance for Tomorrow"
This 1998 film traces the history of a forgotten milestone in Finnish design. The 1960's International space-age craze stirred interest among Finnish architects, especially the Futuro house designed by Matti Suuronen. Suuronen's design encapsulated the distinctive themes of 1960's Utopian architecture; mobility, increased leisure time and new materials. 29 minutes.

"Monsanto House of the Future"
This 1957 film on the Monsanto House of the Future erected in Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA was produced by Monsanto. It includes a full walk through and description of the life of a typical future family. 12 minutes.

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