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“What a weird place!”
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Is he talking to the cat or to god? (a trick question really)
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“Ice-Nine”, of course, is the symbol of the destructive nature of misused technology (eg. Atomic and other human made weapons, etc.) from Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s 1963 postmodern satire “Cat’s Cradle”. You can read that and a few more of his major works here (https://archive.org/details/novelsstories1960000vonn)
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Nowadays there are washing machines with more computing power than that entire control room 🤯
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“Between Time and Timbuktu” (1971) is based on the writing and philosophy of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The screenplay was written by David Odell of “The Muppet Show” fame with contributions from comedy duo Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding and Vonnegut himself. The screenplay combined with images from the TV film were released as a 1972 novelization. You can read that for free here (https://archive.org/details/betweentimetimbu00vonn).
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And now our feature presentation: “Between Time and Timbuktu” (1971) directed by Fred Barzyk (https://youtu.be/HnltZeOvZsw?si=dL87Xi0eDqccX1uT) for the National Educational Television and PBS’s anthology series “NET Playhouse”. Apologies in advance RE: the video quality this TV film has never been released on home video
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