00:23Hello out there, Peabody, Sherman, and way back here.
00:26Sherman, tell the folks what Marconi invented.
00:29Marconi invented spaghetti.
00:31You are confusing Marconi with macaroni, my boy.
00:34Be that as it may, set the way back for Venice, Italy in the year 1896.
00:38For today, we shall be on hand when Guglielmo Marconi produces the first successful radio.
00:44What's radio, Mr. Peabody?
00:46Never mind, get into the way back.
00:48One second later, we were standing inside Marconi's lab, and there, before his invention, stood the great man.
00:54Stand back, please, I gonna turn on a juice.
00:59The juice was turned on, and so was Marconi.
01:02Are you all right, Mr. Marconi?
01:04Si, just a little shocked, that's all.
01:07Does your radio always short out on you that way?
01:09No, most of the time it go out right in the middle of Arthur Godfrey.
01:12I don't know what's a matter.
01:13I bet Mr. Peabody can help.
01:15With Marconi's permission, I proceeded to inspect his wiring.
01:18I knew I'd found the source of the trouble when I discovered the wires leading into a Venice canal.
01:23You mean to say I'm knocking string wire underwater?
01:26Exactly.
01:27Then I'm giving up inventing the radio.
01:30I gonna try television.
01:31I'm afraid the results would be the same.
01:33Look, if we can drain the canals for one day, could you finish your invention, then work on it elsewhere,
01:38say, in Florence?
01:39Sure!
01:40Sherman and I went to the executive offices of the Venice Canal Boat Company, owned and operated by a gentleman
01:45named Giuseppe Pasto.
01:47Drain the canals?
01:50That's ridiculous.
01:51But, Mr. Pasto, Marconi must invent the radio.
01:54And he can only do it if the water is out of the canals.
01:57That's his tough luck.
01:59What now, Mr. Peabody?
02:01Come, my boy, there's more than one way to skin a canal.
02:03Well, at the far end of the city was a large dam used for draining off the surplus canal water.
02:09You see that wheel directly in back of that guard, Sherman?
02:11Well, if we can turn that wheel, the canal will drain completely.
02:15But how are we gonna do it? There's a guard.
02:17We won't do it. The guard will.
02:20How do you do, sir? I'm from the Venice Motor Vehicle Bureau.
02:23That's a nice...
02:24We have a driver's license for you, if you can pass the test.
02:27What test are you talking about?
02:29The left-hand turn. If you can show us how you make a left-hand turn, you get your license.
02:33That's easy. This is steering wheel, right?
02:36Right.
02:37Well, I'm gonna throw out my left-hand out of the window like this.
02:41Go on.
02:41And then all I gotta do is turn the car like this.
02:46You did it, Mr. Peabody. The canals are dry.
02:49Quickly, Sherman, we must get Marconi to finish the radio.
02:52The rest of that night, Marconi slaved over his invention, desperately striving to complete it in time.
02:57Well, that's it.
02:58Is it finished?
02:59Sure.
03:00The brilliant inventor turned the juice on just as he did when we first saw him.
03:04Oh, my gosh! It shorted out again.
03:08Mr. Marconi, are you all right?
03:09I think so. But how about that radio? What could be wrong?
03:14Again, I traced the wires, and to my surprise, they were in the canal.
03:17A water-filled canal.
03:19But we drained it!
03:20True, but we didn't drain the sky.
03:22Huh?
03:23It rained last night, Sherman.
03:25There was nothing else to do but return to the dam and try to trick the guard once more.
03:29Unfortunately, not only had the guards doubled, but they were under the personal supervision of Giuseppe Pasto.
03:35Keep your eyes open.
03:36If anyone is a touch of daddy will, his chicken is gonna be catchet or it.
03:42Pardon me, Signor Pasto, but we're from the Venice Motor Vehicle Bureau.
03:45Oh, no, you don't. I already got my license.
03:48But I'm not here to give you your license, Signor Pasto, but to take it away.
03:52What?
03:53According to the Bureau, you made an illegal U-turn yesterday.
03:56That's not true.
03:57Can you prove it?
03:58Sure. I was behind the wheel, see?
04:01And I was on a one-way street. I'm a lookout both ways.
04:05Street, she's got no one on it.
04:07I see. Then what did you do?
04:08I make a U-turn.
04:10Show us.
04:11Oh, no. You think I'm a fool?
04:13You trying to make me turn this wheel?
04:16Turn the wheel?
04:16Sure. You expecting me to spin the wheel like this?
04:21Come, Sherman. Back to Marconi.
04:24Oh, mama mia. What a dope.
04:27There it is, Signor Peabody. The radio. She's all set. Arrivederci.
04:34Well, you did it, Mr. Peabody. But I can't help feeling sorry for Mr. Pasto.
04:39Oh, don't feel sorry for him, Sherman. He's going into the salad business and he's going to make a fortune.
04:44In fact, he's naming the salad after his aunt.
04:46Oh, really? What's he calling it?
04:48You really don't know, Sherman?
04:50No, sir.
04:51Auntie Pasto?
04:52No, sir.
04:54No, sir.
04:56No, sir.
04:59No, sir.
05:00No, sir.
05:00No, sir.
05:01No, sir.
05:01No, sir.
05:01No, sir.
05:01No, sir.
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