ELP Television

A silent film masterpiece from 1925 Russia. This rendering includes a musical score aligned with the film footage.

We take having gigabytes of memory in our computers for granted today. In 1990 it would have been unfathomable. In this episode of the Computer Chronicles we look at how we tried to stretch the computer memory we did have back then.

Siri was not a thing yet in 1984. Synthesizing speech was in many cases just a dream. In this episode of the Computer Chronicles we see what the state of the art looked like back in 1984.

In this episode from 1987 we explore the initial stirrings of a computer clone market from Taiwan and elsewhere from Asia. This episode was explored by S.M. Oliva in Computer Chronicles Revisited at https://www.smoliva.blog/post/computer-chronicles-revisited-090-computex-taipei-1987-hsinchu-science-park/ in an expansive blog post.

Mister Hoover loved to promote the Bureau in film. This is another example of that.

A silent film by Georges Méliès from 1906 originally entitled L'alchimiste Parafaragaramus ou la cornue infernale.

A silent film from 1916.

A film from 1936 starring Bella Lugosi that presents a fictionalized take on the mysterious ship known as the Mary Celeste.

In this episode of the Computer Chronicles from 1986, we take a look at software for the amateur astronomer.

From one of the smaller bureaus of the United States Department of Transportation, a film produced in the 1990s providing an introduction to the Internet and how it would revolutionize the work of providing transportation services to the country.