This page shows you two different video clips from BBC Archive which they have multiple contexts.
The first one is ‘The robot piano player’(Can the teams make beautiful music together?) {Singer-songwriter Peter Skellern is the guest judge this week as the teams try to create a robotic pianist that is capable of playing a tune.}[1]
The video duration is about 35min and it was broadcasted on BBC 2 channel in 24th of May 1985. The video is useful for people witch interesting in Piano design, Video technology, problem solving, team work, musician, design musical instrument, mechanical engineering and maybe in educational value in making products.
The second video is ‘Lost kings of the Desert’
The video is about an exploration of a lost city in the middle of the desert in Iraq. The duration of the video is abot 49min and It was broadcasted on BBC 2 in 30th of October 1979 {Professor Colin Renfrew examines the forgotten city of Hatra. The programme shows how this stone metropolis retained its buildings, unlike the mud-bricked city of Nineveh, which is now just a large mound or ‘tell’. Renfrew visits the reconstructed gates and figures of winged bull-men that are all that is left of Nineveh, before illustrating the extraordinary society that existed at Hatra, which was influenced by the Romans yet remained independent.}[2]
This video is more useful for people having interest in Education, architecture, archaeology, ancient ruins – teaching how they made it in them days, video & audio quality, storytelling, narrative, Geography, biblical info(religion), craft work, market places, bazaar and museum.
References:
- [1] SYNOPSIS, the great edd race, the robot piano player, http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive
- [2] SYNOPSIS, chronicle, lost kings of the desert, http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive
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