In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting—used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut—this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock’s incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by today’s leading filmmakers.

A visualization of different wavelengths of light in the visible spectrum.

(via Rain-Bros)

My paternal grandfather would’ve been 99 today. Below is a segment from KITV Channel 4 in Hawaii, which aired shortly after his death in September 1988. Los Angeles area locals will recognize the familiar young face of Rob Fukuzaki, who cut his broadcasting teeth in Hawaii before stepping in as sports anchor for ABC Eyewitness News here on the mainland in the mid-nineties.

On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.

A film by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh

Coming next spring.

A documentary about Bell Telephone Laboratories’ experiments with computer graphics, synthesized speech, computer-made movies and music, and designing prototypical devices.