The Light Bulb Conspiracy
2010 · 75 MIN · IMDB 8.0 · 2,360 VOTES · DIR. Cosima Dannoritzer
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 75 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:08 A technician can make a diagnosis but it costs 15 euros plus VAT.
00:01:25 I would advise you buy a new printer.
00:06:09 In a backroom in Geneve, suit wearing men met to create a secret plan.
00:06:30 The cartel was called Phoebus.
00:06:59 Long lasting lights are an economic disadvantage.
00:09:25 to which different types of lightbulbs were connected to
00:11:36 The strategy has been to constantly change names.
00:23:03 but to grow for the sake of growth; unbounded growth in production
00:24:05 is either crazy, or an economist.
00:24:44 and will end up crashing into a wall or driving off a cliff.
00:31:32 The light bulb is the same age, I have never changed it. It is 25 years old.
00:45:36 The transport sector would pay the actual costs of shipping
00:46:56 Nature produces no waste, only nutrients.
00:47:59 In a waste-based society, products will cause problems.
00:48:42 Anti-Growth is a provocative slogan that will break
00:49:12 our waste, overproduction and overconsumption.
00:49:58 If happiness was dependent on our consumption level
00:50:16 For happiness is always subjective.
00:50:57 "The world is big enough to satisfy everyone's needs,"
Cast & Characters
Richard Jones
Self - Livermore Lightbulb Committee
Molly Malcolm
Narrator (English version)
Steve Bunn
Self - Collector
Markus Krajewski
Self - Weimar's Bauhaus University
Lynn Owens
Self
Helmut Höge
Self - Lightbulbs Historian
Warner Philips
Self - Great-grandson of the Founders of Philips
Nicols Fox
Self - Essayist and Journalist
Marcos López Merayo
Self - Computer Expert
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed75
Dialogue density1.0 lines / min
First line00:01:08
Final line00:50:57
Production Record
DirectorCosima Dannoritzer
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes2,360