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Charles Loomis: Captive to the New Technology

The Automobile in Early Children’s Books

Nicolas Stanislas-Auguste Vimar, L’Automobile Vimar (1902 [1897])
- Click on the link above to download a PDF copy (SBU login required)
- Or consult this item from the site of Gallica, the digital repository of the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  - L’Automobile Vimar | Gallica (bnf.fr)
- The text is in French; this is not a required reading. Even if you don’t know French, I recommend that you go through this short narrative and look at the illustrations.

Select scenes from this and other movies of the Transformers series will be shown in class

~~“Transformers: Rise of the Beast”: from 20:13 to 33:30 (Noah goes to steal a car, who is in fact Mirage, an autobot)~~

“Transformers” (2007): from 8:53 (from Sam’s presentation in an 11th grade class, to Sam buying a 1976 Chevrolet Camaro, giving a ride home to Mikaela; then from Sam waking up and discovering his new car is gone, then finally realizing his car is “alive” and it is some kind of bot; Bumblebee leaves, then comes back as a 2007 Camaro)

“Bumblebee” (2018): from 12:02 to 37:40 (from Charlie waking up, to Charlie in the garage with Bumblebee, realizing that she has some kind of droid in front of her)