It’s hard to beat Saul Bass for innovative visuals. I love the Edifice sequence from his longer film Why Man Creates (1968)
Although ideas about the real nature of the state of knowledge in The Dark Ages and the achievements in other places have long since expanded on this pretty Eurocentric view of history. But I still love the Gregorian chanting about falling off the edge of the world.
Oh, yes. I saw that one in school in the 1970s
You need to append the link if you want to edit. I like to use a timestamp set to 0 (add &t=0 to the end of the URL and save before the edited link resolves to the video).
I’m pretty sure I did too. I don’t remember the Syphilis or Gonorrhea armies, but I do remember the overlapping male and female outlines.
Afterwards, this popped up in my “suggested” feed.
I’ve seen that too! It was on either TCM or C-SPAN-2’s “About Books” (or maybe both?) I did not know that the wavy knife could be used to make “hashtag” potatoes. My mother had a knife like that which she would use to cut carrots or other vegetables for a relish tray, and as a young adult, I worked at a company that would sometimes serve “wavy” carrots, also sliced with a knife like this. I had a co-worker who wondered “how they did that”.