June 2015

Movie-map

by Bret Victor

A poster-scale video grid of Engelbart's 1969 demo, broken into chapters, and annotated with an transcript and our notes from a group-watching session.

A thumbnail can be lasered to start playing the video from that point on an iPad.

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The group's annotations act as landmarks in this map. I would "use" this poster by spotting someone's comment, lasering it to play the video from there, and then listening to the video while scanning the poster for a connected or related idea, usually in someone else's comment. I'd then jump the video to there, and scan for the next connection.

Bret later added a tangible handle to the generator program: Floppy disks, github, and tangible software (2015)

Robert made something different with the same material: Engelbart 1969 (2015)