# Gizmo!

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***Gizmo!*** is a 1977 [documentary film](/source/Documentary_film) produced and directed by [Howard Smith](/source/Howard_Smith_(director)) about improbable inventions, and uses old [newsreel](/source/Newsreel) footage about these inventions. Early examples of [parkour](/source/Parkour) and [buildering](/source/Buildering) are also featured, including footage of an urban [acrobat](/source/Acrobatics), [John Ciampa](/source/John_Ciampa) (the "Brooklyn Tarzan"), [Frank "Cannonball" Richards](/source/Frank_%22Cannonball%22_Richards) and a [stuntman](/source/Stuntman), [Arnim Dahl](/source/Arnim_Dahl).

## External links

- [Gizmo!](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074573/) at IMDb
- ["Gizmo!" description and review](http://www.julesverne.ca/gizmo.html)
- [Film clip from "Gizmo!"](http://www.metacafe.com/watch/711607/gizmo/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20121024123529/http://www.metacafe.com/watch/711607/gizmo/) 2012-10-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ["Gizmo!" on archive.org](https://archive.org/details/dvd_GIZMO_1977)

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