Connections - Season 1 Episode 9 Countdown
8.90/10 by 22 users
What happens when you combine a carbon arc light, a billiard ball coating, a spoked wheel and consecutive images? Motion pictures! Complex and sometimes incredible events led to Thomas Edison's remarkable invention; the beginnings of limelight on a Irish mountain; George Eastman's production of celluloid from the slightly explosive gun cotton; the ""magic lantern"" of an Austrian ballistics teacher. Then Eadweard Muybridge settled a bet in 1872 by photographs; does a horse raise all four feet when galloping? (Yes.) Today moving pictures, together with television, are enormously powerful mass media. Have we become trapped by our own technology?
- Title: Connections
- Year: 1978
- Genre: Documentary
- Country:
- Studio: BBC One
- Director: James Burke
- Cast: James Burke
- Crew: James Burke (Writer)
- Keyword: miniseries
- Runtime: 50 minutes
- IMDb: 8.90 / 10 by 22 users
- Popularity: 8.196
- First Air Date: Oct 17, 1978
- Last Air date: Dec 19, 1978
- Season: 1 Season
- Episode: 10 Episode
- Language: English
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