Rocky Horror Triple Contact Electro Magnet [sic]

Refresher: Brad, Frank-N-Furter, and Riff Raff are in the laboratory when the monitor reveals Dr. Scott entering the castle. To skip a chase scene, Frank activates the Triple Contact Electro Magnet, drawing Dr. Scott’s wheelchair on a comically twisty route through the castle to the magnet. (Look close and you’ll see both the wire pulling Jonathan Adams and the carpet separate when he gets near the top.) It’s hard not to linger on the litany of ways this defies physics and…you know…reason, but let’s stick to interface and interaction. The main control is a lever that slides along a channel that runs a third of the way horizontally, then downward diagonally for the middle third, and horizontally again for the last third. When Frank pulls the lever to the right, the first contact (the v-shaped electromagnet) extends away from the wall. When he pulls it along the slope, the second contact extends. The last slide right extends the third. Across all three, a humming sound in the background…