An animated pixie named Coily grants a man his wish that all springs disappear... a wish that he soon regrets.
Between 1935 and 1968, the Jam Handy Organization produced 72 films, many of them short, and probably most notably a series of movies about the 1955 Chevrolet. Today (2015) we might laugh at most of them, but they had their place.
This one is particularly interesting in the context of a first-year physics class. If you were to show this to freshmen in high school, they would probably learn a thing or two. Younger students might even appreciate it more. When taught about simple machines, springs are often overlooked.
This film, although short, suffers from its second half because it seems to keep going long after the point is made that springs are important. Did they just need to fill time? And unfortunately the actors involved have had their names lost to history...