interviews: Off the Ground & Off the Wall: A Doorstop Documentary

"Off the Ground & Off the Wall: A Doorstop Documentary" includes interviews with:

  • the authors of the only two books written on the subject of antique doorstops.
  • antique doorstop collectors.
  • the president of a company in Cleveland that distributes "Big Foot" brand rubber wedge doorstops.
  • a hardware company employee whose job duties include testing doorstops according to rules established by the American National Standards Institute.
  • a professor from Harvard Law School, discussing a criminal case tried in New Jersey in the 1960's that involved a doorstop.
  • philosophy professors from Brandeis University and Wellesley College arguing about the essence of a doorstop.
  • linguistics professor Laurence Horn from Yale University relating his views on frog doorstops.
  • film critics (Gene Shalit and David Brudnoy) talking about how they keep their doors open.