The thing about being only able to dream of 400 viewers was a dig at BBC Four rather than the BBC as a whole. BBC Four is the BBC's 'intellectual' TV channel (focusing on the arts, documentaries, current affairs, foreign language dramas etc).
Diane Morgan is amazing and I couldn't imagine anyone else doing her job as well as she does, but the writer and creator of Philomena Cunk, Charlie Brooker, also deserves some of the credit for how great these shows are. His track record is impressive - not only did he introduce the world to Philomena Cunk, he also created and wrote the show Black Mirror.
You're right about the frame rate. It was caused by the camera being hand cranked so getting the speed right was purely guess work. Then when the film was projected it was driven by electric motors.
Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 - 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer". Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic design. The Enigma machine was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I. The German firm Scherbius & Ritter, co-founded by Scherbius, patented ideas for a cipher machine in 1918 and began marketing the finished product under the brand name Enigma in 1923 The British began work on decrypting German Enigma messages, using the Polish equipment and techniques.
The poem is "Dulce Et Decorum Est" one of many brilliant poems by Wilfred Owen, a young man who died in the war. The last lines after the quote we heard are: My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. [translation: it is good/honorable to die for your country]
Alan Turing. Loved my first channel visit. Great reactions, knowledge and appreciation of the humour. A few great minds went in to the making of these. I've only discovered Philomena Cunk in recent weeks, though it has aired since around 2016/7? I wasn't sure it was a real documentary from brief clips and the accent put me off (me an Irishman in London!) There's a great stage interview of Diane Morgan, writer Charlie Brooker (very comedically talented all around) and one other I forget. Very insightful. I think it was under the BAFTA or SAG awards week of interviews. I couldn't find it again.
Well to be fair Europeans get confronted with "such kind of questions + statements" from "avarage/ordinary" US tourists on a daily basis. No offence...just the truth.
Yes you have made an interesting comment here. It is quite a good one that can be applied to a myriad of situations in recent history (other than the original intention). Every time I hear it I feel it applies to a current situation. 👍
As for frame rate this is indeed true, at the time the standard frame rate was around 15fps (give or take with hand cranking) now its 24fps and many make the mistake if playing old films at that frame rate resulting in these films looking fast.
I can only imagine what was going through the heads of those poor historians with the questions and keeping straight faces. I'm pretty sure there must be tons of bloopers. That would be great to watch.
Alan Turing is on our current £50 note. Another show you might want to check out is a series of British comedy sketches from the 90s called 'History Today' by Newman and Baddiel. It's two history professors who end up slinging childish playground insults at each other.
Alan Turing,chose chemical castration rather than prison as punishment for his homosexuality which was illegal in Britain until 1969.This action led his to commit suicide by eating an apple laced with poison.
Tommy Flowers, who was an engineer for the Post Office, is now credited for building the world's first electronic computer at Bletchley Park. He could never discuss it when he was alive, due to it being classified by the British Government. It was this machine that enabled the British to decode Enigma traffic so quickly.
@@HumorAndHistory The computer was called Colossus, and it wasn't used to break the Enigma, but a different enciphering machine called Lorenz. The Lorenz machine was used for the highest levels of German military communication, whilst the Enigma machines were mostly used at the tactical level. Tommy Flowers, who built the machine, was a telephone engineer, but the guy who worked out how the Lorenz cipher machine worked, without ever seeing one was a genius called Bill Tutte who later emigrated to Canada as a university academic. Some claim that it was the single greatest intellectual achievement of WW II. Whilst Colossus is often called the first electronic computer, it was not what is called "Turing complete". That is it was not a general purpose computer, and it's programming was very specifically targeted at breaking Lorenz encrypted messages. The phrase "Turing complete" is important here, as the most well known character from Bletchley Park was the mathematician Alan Turing and, prior to WW II, had written the first seminal work on computing with a highly abstracted general purpose computer now called a Turing Machine. It wasn't a real computer architecture, but sort of logical model of one and was used in a sort of thought experiment which dealt with a technical problem called he "stopping problem". Basically could a computer ever run a programme that would predict whether another programme would ever stop (the answer is that it can't, and this is related to a theorem in mathematics called the Godel's incompleteness theorem). In any event, Alan Turing worked on the Enigma decoding and the various codes that used it for the various arms of the German military including, crucially, the U-Boats. The work at Bletchley was based on Polish breakthroughs who achieved the first decryption of German Enigma encodings in the late 1930s, and had gained access to a military Enigma machine via spies (and involving the French). However, by 1939, they Germans had introduced some upgrades, and the Poles were unable to break messages encrypted with these machines, and it was at the dawn of WW II that they shared their breakthroughs with the French and British. It was due to that work, which was heavily based on mathematics, that the British realised what was possible. Turing was the key figure that took on that work, refined it an added his own insights and designed the famous Bombes, which were electromechanical in nature, recreations of which can be seen at the museum at Bletchley Park (alongside a working Colossus). The work at Bletchley Park was passed onto the USA prior to the entry of the latter into WW II, and the Americans, in time, built even more Bombes than the British, and which ran faster. America was the world leader in such electromechanical devices (witness IBM among other companies). However, it should be emphasised, that the mathematics alone did not break the Enigma codes. The decryption process relied on poor German procedures and human nature as well. If Enigma had been used properly, then it would not have been consistently broken. The human factor mattered as well. Nb. Bletchley Park was part of a vast organisation of decryption and signal analysis. It employed several tens of thousands of people.
Charlie Brooker was the main writer.he wrote a t v series called in bed with me dinner.parody on in bed with Madonna while back now.but Dianne had free reign as well.the historians did no she was an actress but had no idea what questions she was gonna ask.she appeared in a comedy few years called mandy.try & check it out but it might be to northern working class for some to be funny
The team at Bletchley Park devised automatic machinery to help with decryption, culminating in the development of Colossus, the world's first programmable digital electronic computer.
Most of the groundwork was done by the Poles. Without their efforts, Turing would not have succeeded! Sadly, they don't tend to get much credit for their efforts.
I love her humor. It may seem a bit crass to wish we could rely of her historical facts but Will Cuppy did it as I recall in The Rise and Fall of Practically Everybody-or maybe I was just too young to discriminate at the time. Hmmmm….I guess that’s my point. Addendum. This video is actually accurate so my comment doesn’t apply here. It was the third consecutive Cunk I watched and in the other 2 the historical errors were part of the comedy-if you knew they were errors-such as a reference the non-existent King Richard V.
Did you know in the twenties when electricity was taking over from gas in British homes you could have a gas powered refrigerator, radio and other items? QI the BBC show covered it in 1 episode but I can’t find a video of it on RU-vid.
Baird invented a mechanical tv which required a giant disk spinning at the same rpm as the transmitter, so really no, he didnt invent television. Philmore Farnsworth, (futurama professor is a nod to him.) invented the first solid state and therefore useful television system.
And make a window with yourself at least 9 times bigger, people watching reactions already saw the subject video, and they enjoy watching you reacting more than anything
@@HumorAndHistory Obviously you're not TheMathBuff lol. 9 Times would be stretching your window 3 times in each direction...and even then it would be pretty small compared to other reactors 😅
I haven't seen the original so I am thankful the window is not 9 times bigger. I hate it when reactors use their videos as an excuse to show off. I am not watching this to see a reactor.
