1/8/2023 0 Comments Road runner cartoon videoIt briefly appeared in the Walt Disney Donald Duck episode Cured Duck released in 1945. Subsequently, it began to be depicted in films, starting with the silent era films such as the 1920 Neighbors with Buster Keaton and the 1922 Grandma's Boy with Harold Lloyd, continuing with TV series, such as in early episodes of I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show, comic strips and cartoons, especially those made by Warner Bros., and commercials. Also, products' names began to contain it, such as anvils, in early Sears catalogues. It was widespread and popular in 1920s with companies and businesses, because the word was listed first in the alphabetized business telephone directories, such as the Yellow Pages, and also implied being the best. It is not an acronym standing for either "A Company Making Everything", "American Companies Make Everything", or "American Company that Manufactures Everything", as falsely believed. ![]() In the cartoon it is used in ironic sense because the products are often failure-prone or dangerously explosive, while the word's meaning originates from the Greek (ακμή, English transliteration: akmē) meaning summit, highest point, extremity or peak. Look up Acme in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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