Coolidge's "Poor Popcorn"

coolidge: Some of the most inspired practical jokers on college ses are in the advance science programes. They see a situation which seems perfectly normal and ask themselves, what's the funniest, most amazing thing i can do to turn this situation upside down? It's not just high spirits, but a release, a kind of safety valve against the tremendous academic pressure they're under. The big sequence in the film is the popcorn sequence, destroying the house. To accomplish this effect, before we had lots of digital technology, they needed a lot of popcorn.