Buckminster Fuller Thinking Out Loud

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Science Documentary with no narration published by PBS broadcasted as part of American Masters series in 1996 - English language

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Making the worlds available resources serve one hundred percent of an exploding population can only be accomplished by a boldly accelerated design revolution. There are few men who can justly claim to have revolutionized their discipline. R. Buckminster Fuller revolutionized many. Bucky, as he was known to most, was a designer, architect, poet, educator, engineer, philosopher, environmentalist, and, above all, humanitarian. Driven by the belief that humanitys major problems were hunger and homelessness he dedicated his life to solving those problems through inexpensive and efficient design. The grandnephew of the American Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller, Bucky was born on July 12, 1895 in Milton, Massachusetts. He was twice expelled from Harvard. Later, Bucky married Anne Hewlett in 1917 and went into the construction business with her father. A decade later he witnessed the first of many business failures, when, due to economic difficulties, he was forced out of the company. Despondent over these failures and family problems, he resolved to focus his energies on a search for socially responsible answers to the major design problems of his time. Recognizing the inefficiency of the automobile, Bucky spent the late twenties designing a car that would incorporate the engineering advances of the airplane. In 1933, he presented the first prototype of the Dymaxion car. The Dymaxion car could hold twelve passengers, go 120 miles per hour and used half the gas of the standard car, utilizing aerodynamics construction and only three wheels. While demonstrating the car to investors, it crashed, taking one life. Though the crash was later determined not to be the fault of the car, he was never able to find adequate funding.