USA / QUIRKY: Wisconsin inventor demonstrates crazy devices (1947)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Professor Russell Oakes demonstrates some of his latest inventions, including a device to keep flies away while one is picnicking, headphone amplifiers for use at the movies, a sort of mousetrap for discouraging door-to-door salemen, and a head fan device for gum-chewing stenographers Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Inventor Demonstrates Useful Devices USA: Wisconsin: INT INVENTIONS Crazy inventor Prof. Russell E. Oakes with several of his crazy ideas Inventions Popular Science, goofy gadgets, Waukesha, United States, American Background: Professor Russell Oakes demonstrates some of his latest inventions, including a device to keep flies away while one is picnicking, headphone amplifiers for use at the movies, a sort of mousetrap for discouraging door-to-door salemen, and a head fan device for gum-chewing stenogra