Showcase: growing grass and an arial llama

Rube Goldberg films are a genre unto themselves. Here's two modern versions which blitz the idea in very different ways, with added bloopers.
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Image: Arial Llama is one daft filmmaker.  

The very first Rube Goldberg film was probably the 1930 feature, Soup to Nuts, which launched The Three Stooges on celluloid. In the UK, the equivalent piece of engineering drollery is the Heath Robinson contraption while the Danes have a similar cartoonist called Storm P, though neither of these have been associated with films. 

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David Tiley was the Editor of Screenhub from 2005 until he became Content Lead for Film in 2021 with a special interest in policy. He is a writer in screen media with a long career in educational programs, documentary, and government funding, with a side order in script editing. He values curiosity, humour and objectivity in support of Australian visions and the art of storytelling.