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Lighthouse of Jára Cimrman

Summary by Atlas Obscura

Imagine taking one groundbreaking invention after another to the patent office and the clerk uncompromisingly telling you now, now, he was already here. You must have met him — a certain Alexander Graham Bell." This is just one of the wacky incidents shown in the 1983 Czechoslovak mockumentary "Jara Cimrman Lying, Sleeping" (Czech: Jára Cimrman ležící, spící"). It also shows, for example, that Cimrman bent the original model of the Eiffel Tower,…

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Lighthouse of Jára Cimrman

Imagine taking one groundbreaking invention after another to the patent office and the clerk uncompromisingly telling you now, now, he was already here. You must have met him — a certain Alexander Graham Bell." This is just one of the wacky incidents shown in the 1983 Czechoslovak mockumentary "Jara Cimrman Lying, Sleeping" (Czech: Jára Cimrman ležící, spící"). It also shows, for example, that Cimrman bent the original model of the Eiffel Tower,…

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