The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010)
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The untold story of Planned Obsolescence
Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.
- Date of release
- 2010-11-30
- TMDB
- 7.6 / 10 (89)
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Cosima Dannoritzer
Casting
- Molly Malcolm — Narrator
- Mike Anane — Himself
- Michael Braungart — Himself
- Steve Bunn — Himself
- Nicols Fox — Herself
- Casey Neistat — Himself
Interesting facts
The Light Bulb Conspiracy, also known as Pyramids of Waste, is a 2010 Franco-Spanish documentary film written and directed by Cosima Dannoritzer about the practice of planned obsolescence. In 2013, Dannoritzer and Jürgen Reuß co-published a book based on the film.
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