1977
9:01Powers of Ten™ (1977)
9.5M views • 16 years ago
Eames Office
The Eames Office's 1977 film Powers of Ten starts at a picnic in Chicago and zooms out by a factor of ten every ten seconds to the edge of the universe. It then zooms inward to a proton in a carbon atom.
5:14John Chowning - Stria (1977)
147K views • 17 years ago
Asymmatrix
John Chowning's 1977 computer music piece Stria, composed with FM synthesis, which he discovered in 1967. It unifies timbre and scale structure around the Golden Mean.
4:55:46The Secret War
552K views • 12 years ago
Sergio IQ
A compilation of the 1977 BBC series The Secret War, a documentary on British scientific and technical efforts in WWII, including radar, German navigation beams and V-weapons. It features interviews with people who were there, including Albert Speer.
40:05"Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings
349K views • 7 years ago
Strange Loop Conference
A Strange Loop 2019 talk by Aaron Cummings on the computing systems aboard Voyager 1 and 2, which control the spacecraft and record and return data decades after launch in 1977.
2:38Star Wars Origins: The Dam Busters - Side by Side Scene Comparison
608K views • 12 years ago
The Non-Conformist
A three-minute side-by-side comparison of scenes from Star Wars (1977) and the WWII film The Dam Busters (1955). It shows how closely the Death Star trench run mirrors the earlier film.