Everyone has at one point had a ridiculous idea that they thought would make them millions. Some of those people went on to patent those ridiculous ideas. Some of them got made, some of them changed history, and some of them remain forgotten documents. These patents make up the content of Patently Silly, a website, book and animation series. We talk to Daniel Wright about the humor in invention like ‘Delivery of Caffeine Through An Inhalation Route’, ‘Retractable Table Top For Toilet’, ‘Voice Communication Concerning a Local Entity’, track down the inventor of the ‘Portable Electrical Mouse Trap’ and learn from lawyers about how public domain content can be used to explore different creative formats and ideas.
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Credits:
CREATED & PRODUCED by Lance Weiler & Alex Johnson
CREATIVE DIRECTOR Alex Johnson
DIRECTOR Josh Cramer
DP Tom Quinn
EDITOR Jawad Metni
SERIES PRODUCER Josh Cramer
SEGMENT PRODUCER Nick Olson
SERIES MUSIC T. Griffen
TITLE SEQUENCE Jordan Gray
POST PRODUCTION House of Trim
Featured Music:
Bitter Bitter Weeks “Sincerely”
Silk Flowers “Chances of Flowers”
