Learning on ScreenDream Machine (5 Parts)
- Synopsis
- Series tracing the development of the computer.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 50 min.
- Year of production
- 1991
- Availability
- Sale; 1997 sale: £250.00 (+VAT +p&p) series
- Notes
- Broadcast on BBC2 from 17 Nov 1991.
- Subjects
- Information technology
- Keywords
- computer industries; computers; history of technology
Credits
- Producer
- Fiona Holmes; Jon Palfreman; Nancy Linde; Robert Hone
- Contributor
- Jon Palfreman
- Cast
Andrew Sachs Lesley Judd
Sections
- Title
- Giant brains
- Synopsis
- 1 (producer Fiona Holmes): Englishman Charles Babbage conceived the basic idea of a computer about 150 years ago, as a machine that would relieve the humans of the tedium of calculations. But not until 1946, when the American produced the INIAC, did the c
- Title
- Inventing the future
- Synopsis
- 2 (producer Nancy Linde): J Presper Eckert and John Mauchley struggled to make a commercial success of their ENIAC computer. Meanwhile in Britain, the J Lyons company decided to build its own computer to improve efficiency.
- Title
- Paperback computer,The
- Synopsis
- 3 (producers Robert Hone and John Palfreman): Among the advances in computer technology in the 1970s, the single silicon chip suitable for mass production incorporated the vast amounts of computer circuitry.
- Title
- Thinking machine, The
- Synopsis
- 4 (producer Jon Palfreman): Although computers could do calculus and play chess by the 1960s, they were still unable to simulte human thought.
- Title
- Passing of remoteness, The
- Synopsis
- 5 (producer Robert Hone): Looking into a digital future with world-wide computer networks, issues of error and privacy become increasingly more worrying.
Production Company
- Name
BBC Television
Distributor
- Name
BBC Active Video for Learning - now BBC Learning
- Contact
- Carolina Fernandez Jeremy Wilcox (CF - for educational enquiries JW - channel sales manager)
- BBCStudiosLearning@bbc.com
- Web
- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/ External site opens in new window
- Phone
- +44 (0) 20 8433 1009
- Address
- BBC Studios Limited
Television Centre
101 Wood Lane
London
W12 7FA
UK - Notes
- The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’
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