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[ NNSquad ] AT&T Archives Video: The Hello Machine (1974)
AT&T Archives Video: The Hello Machine (1974)
http://j.mp/yDEhKI (YouTube / 13.25 minutes)
"Introduction by George Kupczak of the AT&T Archives and History
Center. Directed by Carroll Ballard (Never Cry Wolf, The Black
Stallion), The Hello Machine is a short, wordless film-poem, in which
he chronicles the building of an entire ESS Mainframe. It's a poetic
musing on the connections between handwork and the act of
communicating. In the film, he chronicles the act of making and
building the mainframe with human hands so carefully that it becomes a
handcraft, like weaving or sewing. As he elevates the frameworker to
the status of craftperson, the mainframe itself becomes an artistic
masterpiece, then brought to life by electricity. Ballard's stance is
that it takes humans to connect humans, not machines."
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