The Last Dymaxion

The Last Dymaxion Buckminster Fullers Dream Restored is a 2012 documentary film directed by Noel Murphy. about Buckminster Fullers 1933 Dymaxion car as well as Fuller himself.

Exploring Fullers invention of the Geodesic Dome and its innovative structural system, the documentory also examines Fullers early heavy drinking, expulsion from Harvard University and suicide attempt. In 1927, after Fuller had lost his 4year daughter due to Polio and had lost his job, he contemplated drowning himself in the freezing waters of Lake Michigan. Fuller reported an intense mystical experience realizing he belonged to the universe and could not take his own life.Filming took place over two years and tells the story of Buckminster Fuller. The director Noel Murphy traveled to England, Spain and all over the United States, researching, filming and interviewing Jay Leno and Norman Foster. Fuller designed and built three car prototypes shaped like zeppelin and called them Dymaxion, short for Dynamic Maximum Tension. The filmmaker, Noel Murphy, a descendant of a General Motors founder, has spent about 100,000 so far, traveling to Fuller archives and New England factory sites and interviewing those interested in Fuller. Mr. Murphy has acquired Fuller artifacts during his research, including a 1941 photo of a Dymaxion prototype taken just before an unsealed gas cap caused it to catch fire and be destroyed. One Dymaxion prototype survives, and was recently returned to the collection of the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada. Murphy personally took part in the restoration at Crosthwaite amp Gardiner, car restorers in East Sussex, England. It had spent years rusting on a farm before ending up at the museum. Part of the car was destroyed but Buckys true legacy was his thinking, the historian Jay Baldwin explains in the documentary. ........

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