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as a guitar tech". Fuller was a visionary environmentalist; his lightweight teardrop-shaped car spun on three wheels, held a dozen people and was originally meant to run on alcohol fuel. The documentary explores his other green innovations, including his geodesic domes and philosophical approach to
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factory sites and interviewing those interested in Fuller. Murphy has acquired Fuller artifacts during his research, including a 1941 photo of a Dymaxion prototype taken just before an unsealed gas cap caused it to catch fire and be destroyed. One Dymaxion prototype survives, and was recently
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and suicide attempt. In 1927, after Fuller had lost his 4-year daughter due to Polio and had lost his job, he contemplated drowning himself in the freezing waters of
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and its innovative structural system, the documentary also examines Fuller's early heavy drinking, expulsion from
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Director Noel Murphy said describing "Buckminster Fuller as a car designer would be like describing
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calls Buckminster Fuller a genius. Buckminster Fuller's advocacy for humanity permeates the film.
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from drawings and study of the first three cars. In the film, noted automobile collector
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founder, has spent about $ 100,000 so far, traveling to Fuller archives and
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The film has been screened at McPherson Museum of Art and History,
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Filming took place over two years and tells the story of
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