Movies and TvShows featuring "labor-saving-device" theme.

Nick Danger, a private detective, is hired to find a missing egg yolk. Along the way, he encounters surreal situations and spoofs of soap operas and fake commercials.

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

A Pete Smith Specialty shorts series entry. Dave demonstrates a variety of household items and furniture which, while modern, is much more trouble than the progress is worth.

Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power.

Two beavers, working harder than beavers, are cutting down trees in order to build a dam when they notice cords of wood piled next to a dog-house. They start hauling it off, as a labor-saving device, but the guard-dog objects and starts chasing them. They easily avoid his futile attempts to catch them and, to add insult to injury, they even dismantle the dog-house. When winter comes and the first snow, the dog, his house destroyed by the beavers, is out in the cold. Ashamed of their actions, the two beavers disguise the dog as a beaver, and the trio spends the winter in the beaver's home.