channel 20 in Chicago
When I lived in the Chicago area in the 1970s/80s/90s one of the TV stations I watched was channel 20, WYCC (the call letters stood for Your City Colleges, something like that ?). It was an adult education channel. I remember a few of the shows such as French in Action and Against all Odds: Inside Statistics.
One was a movie series in which Eisenstein's silent movie: Battleship Potemkin, was repeated numerous times. If you've never seen it I'll spoil it slightly by mentioning the scene of the maggot ridden meat
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| don't tell me they're protein |
but also the famous Odessa steps scene with the baby carriage.
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| down the steps on metal wheels ! |
The movie: "The Untouchables" had a similar scene in a Chicago railway station lobby.
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| at least they've got rubber tires in Chicago |
BTW, another famous stairs + gunfire scene is in the movie: The Hidden Fortress
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| the scenes on the stairs were amazing |
And of course The Hidden Fortress was the inspiration for the Star Wars movies.
In view of what is happening in Ukraine now, the "Battleship Potemkin" might be worth another viewing.
But digressions aside, another show that I remember watching on WYCC was "The Mechanical Universe and beyond". This was a 52 part show about physics that WYCC repeated over and over. In each show there was a lecture opening/closing by Dr. David Goodstein of Cal Tech. Then a narrated historical view of the subject for that episode was presented along with an explanation of the physics involved, often using computer graphics.
If you're just interested in the electrical/electronic/radio stuff I'd start with the second half of the shows. Episode 28 starts with Static Electricity and Episode 39 presents Maxwell's Equations with a number of other items in between.
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| You'll have to watch to see if Heaviside is mentioned ! |
The shows are on Youtube but the the sound and video are out of sync. I usually look at the episodes on Dailymotion:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2y6uuq episode 28 Static Electricity
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z2gf0 episode 38 Maxwell's Equations
I'd list all the links to the shows but Blogger would accuse me of spam :)
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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