Had you thought about using CD-i technology for this project, and if so why didn't you carry through with it? I'm very interested in the use of this technology, and the ability of playing it on a TV set, rather than a high-memory computer with a very speedy CD-rom drive. Video disc also has a limited installed hardware base. Interested in your thinking about this..... > > We've done a multi-media simulation on the early industrial history of > the American film. It's called MOGUL and is based on the rise of Adolph > Zukor. We did the development on videodisk (for film images) and a > dedicated hard disk, using Macintosh technology. It's currently being > ported to CD-ROM and should be available to others in ca. 6 months or > so. > > This term, in the introductory film aesthetics course, the students are > doing their term papers on Word 5.1 for Macintosh and are embedding > Quicktime video excerpts as "video footnotes." Finally...maybe...we can > beat the problem of quotation in film writing. (I keep wondering why so > few of the films described by Kracauer actually look like he remembers > them.) > > We tried this technique in a course in Film Images of African-Americans, > taught jointly by Anthropology and Communication last term, and it > worked quite well with 15 volunteers. Now we're doing it with 65 > students as a normal part of the course. > > Each student is lent a high-capacity SyQuest cartridge, and in essence > has a portable hard-disk. Next year, we will be able to network the > improved version of Quick-Time, promised soon from Apple, and we will > try to have available for the class. > > One problem with this technology is the difficulty of answering the > inevitable student question "how long should the paper be." I suggested > ca. 30-40 megabytes of text and image (images eat lots of bytes) but it > was not a very informed guess. > > -Henry Breitrose > Stanford > -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Sandy Dwiggins Internet: [log in to unmask] + + Building 82, Room 111 Phone: (301) 496-7406 + + Bethesda, Maryland 20892 Fax: (301) 480-8105 + +------------------------------------------------------------------------+