The Ash Can Float (1939)*** (out of 4)Nine-minute documentary short from MGM tells the story of Connecticut farm boy David Bushnell who would attend Yale and eventually come up with the submarine. We see how he came up with the plans to build the first one and in an re-enactment we see it put to use for the first time.
Frank Whitbeck narrates this MGM short subject about David Bushnell, the Connecticut farmboy-turned-inventor who came up with the idea of the depth charge, about the same time that Robert Fulton was trying to build a submarine.The movie is told in the context of the aftermath of the German defeat in the First World War, with Robert Warwick in heavy make up telling reporters that Bushnell was the single man most responsible for the Entente's victory, and that the 'Ash Can Fleet' of what would become patrol boats in the Second World War, responsible for the failure of the German U-Boat campaign.
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