We’ve all been there. The dishes in the sink. The litter box. The piles of dirty laundry. The piles of clean laundry. Can’t somebody else do it? Can’t . . . dynamite do it? According to Letting Dynamite Do It, a rare example of pre-1930 film and the oldest DuPont motion picture film in the Hagley collection, the answer is maybe! Or probably! I’m not actually sure. This 1926 film, along with similar sales pitches like "Farming With Dynamite", was distributed by DuPont to theaters to promote the use of DuPont dynamite. In this video, dynamite is shown providing solutions for lumbering, raising a blast furnace, clearing roads, removing an old water intake in Lake Michigan, and to blast rock during the construction of the Confederate Memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia.










