Just watched on YouTube a little movie, "No Highway in the Sky," starring Jimmy Stewart, Marlene Deitrich, Glynnis Johns.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043859/

The movie is focused on the possibility of a fatal flaw in a new commercial aircraft design.

A couple of minutes in, a character jovially disparages scientists as "those chaps who eat their porridge with slide rules, you know ...". There may be actual sightings in several other spots (such as Stewart carrying one tucked in his briefcase), but I can't quite raise the video resolution enough for a clear look.

The movie is an uneven mix which eventually supports science and mathematics while wrapping them up in balderdash. For instance, Stewart is an archtypical, absent-minded, somewhat asocial "boffin," raising his daughter as a nerd/geek ("swat" in the movie's terms) and who has no empathy for the potential human impact of his work at the start of the movie (his evolution in this regard is a key plot point of the film). As another example, "nuclear fission" as a cause of vibrational metal fatigue is of course silly.

Inside the movie there are several very human and poignant themes and moments. Not a horrible way to spend a little spare time, if you can set aside the scientific follies.