Fortune Seekers

Did you ever want to make a fortune? You could go mining for gold, dive for sunken treasure, find a stock that will go from pennies to thousands. Or you could invent something like a device to get the lid that's stuck on a jar off, patent it, and wait until the offers roll in.

Me, I run hot water, stick the lid under it for a few seconds, then bang it flat on the counter for good measure. Not the geniuses of this RKO short, who dream up devices after reading a few pages of POPULAR MECHANIX and pay the Patent Office thirty bucks.

Yes, it's the exciting world of patent application. There's some good if overstated humor, and references to successful and unsuccessful inventions of the past, including bobby pins and Lincoln's method of getting a wagon over a stream.