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The Tennis for Two Documentary: An Update

2/26/2013

 
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So Ray and I have just finished our 2nd run of edits/feedback on When Games Went Click: The Tennis for Two Story. We're imagining the video should be out by mid-to-late Spring semester. Above is a "movie poster" I made for Ray after the shooting finished in the fall, as a gift; eventually we're going to have them made into posters to hang in the department office and in our own homes. It isn't every day you cut a video about the first analog computer game!

For those  interested in the documentary, here's some gentle teasers. The documentary will include interviews with four figures:
  • Robert Crease, Professor of Philosophy at SBU and Historian of Brookhaven National Lab. Crease discusses the background of Brookhaven, the cultural context of national labs, and the significance of Brookhaven's Visitor's Days (which T42 was designed for)
  • Peter Takacs, Physicist at Brookhaven, who has been the lead behind T42's present-day reconstruction
  • Robert Dvorak Jr., son of Robert Dvorak Sr., one of the men who actually built T42 from Higinbotham's schematics. Bob Jr. was a kid when T42 was unveiled in 1958, and got to play it before it went public--making Bob, ostensibly, the world's "First Gamer"
  • Raiford Guins, Associate Professor at SBU, speaking to the role of T42 in video game history

Sometime after the video is done, it will be available to the public on YouTube, hosted by SBU's YouTube channel. There will also likely be a main screening at SBU, and hopefully I'll be working with a friend to have some local screenings at more small-scale sites around NYC. Check this space or follow me on twitter for updates!

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  • The Apple II Age
  • About
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    • ROMchip
    • Sierra On-Line Memories
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    • Softalk Open Discussion Project
    • Academic Coach Taylor
    • JVC Meme Issue
    • T42 Documentary
    • Different Games Conference
    • Freelance Graphic Design