Video Ethnography of Visual Almanac
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Channel: Computer History Museum · 2018 · Science & Technology
[Recorded on 2018-08-07] In the late 1980s, prior to the invention of compressed digital video on personal computers, the Apple Multimedia Lab created a number of multimedia software titles that involved a LaserDisc player being controlled by hypermedia software on a Macintosh computer, allowing video to be played alongside text and still graphics. This represented a transitional stage for multimedia, which would be transformed by Apple's invention of QuickTime video only a few years later. Dr. Andrew Lison, an Assistant Professor of Media Study at the University of Buffalo, has been researching this moment of multimedia's transition in the geopolitical context of the end of the Cold War. Dr. Lison demonstrates and discusses two such videodisc/software hybrids produced by the Apple Multimedia Lab: the Visual Almanac, and The Encyclopedia of Multimedia. Lot number: X8741.2019 Catalog number: 102738853
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