Energy and How to Get It

1981Directed by Robert Frank

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Released: August 10, 1981
Runtime: 28m

About Energy and How to Get It

Comedy
Documentary

Synopsis

Filmed in Wendover, Nevada, in early 1981, Energy and How to Get It combines documentary and fictional ideas. What began as a documentary film about Robert Golka, an engineer who was experimenting with ball lightning and the development of fusion as an energy force, was turned into a spoof on the documentary form, inserting fictional characters into the story such as the Energy Czar (William Burroughs), and a Hollywood agent (filmmaker Robert Downey). (mfah.org)

Director: Robert Frank
Writer: Rudy Wurlitzer

Principal cast

In billing order

William S. Burroughs
Dr. John
Allan Moyle
Robert Downey Sr.

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