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Most mechanical systems employ an element of at least one of these Six Simple Machines: the Lever, the Inclined Plane, the Wedge, the Screw, the Wheel and the Pulley. With "Six Simple Machines," the MIT LineStorm Animation Consortium celebrates these humble - but indispensable -- mechanisms, in whimsical configurations. Our hand-drawn artwork originates on flipbooks, streaming at a rate of ten drawings per second. We encode the drawings via Frame Thief, then edit in Final Cut Pro. The music is an excerpt from Luigi Boccherini's "Third Quintet in E Minor," Allegretto movement, performed by guitarist Oscar Caceres and the Ensemble Arpeggione, from an ADDA Compact Disc, #581038, copyright 1987. Pell Osborn, of the MIT Student Art Association, supervised the project. Many thanks to the LineStorm animators for their hard work, enduring patience and excellent humor!