University of Weltford

University of Weltford is a 2022 comedy film by Thomas Jebbon. It is the first film in the Thomas Jebbon universe.

The film follows the eponymous University of Weltford, who build projects ranging from vehicles to gadgets, often humorously. The film consists of 10 short films each lasting 10 minutes. The film only has dialogue through intertitles, like a silent film, and the soundtrack consists of 80s sounding songs.

UoW Archive No. 1: The Car-Boat
The team at the University of Weltford Research and Development Centre set out to build a car that can float on water, as if it were a boat. For the basis, they pick a first-generation Fiat Multipla, simply hecause they think it looks boat-like, and add floats to the car. When testing it, the car sinks. They recover the car and fix the engine, then they pump more air into the floats. The vehicle still sinks. After recovering and fixing it again, one of the students visits a lifeboat centre, in which he studies the shape of the lifeboat and copies it onto a clipboard. When he gets back to the university, he shows the rest of the team sketches of the lifeboat, and proceed to add parts similar to the shape of it to the car. They also weld propellers to the back of the car, connected to the engine. The car is then pushed into the lake and it floats successfully, with the engine working.

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