"The Tailenders" depicts communication tech in developing countries

Another installment in the movie series "Movies Even an Engineer Would Love" (PDF Flyer), The Tailenders, will be shown Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 7-9 pm at the Spurlock Museum:

Filmed in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India, and the US, this film chronicles a missionary organization's development of ultra-low-tech audio technologies (like a cardboard record player) to evangelize to traditional communities with limited access to electricity and media. Interspersing interviews with shots of nodal patterns, waveforms and a signal generator, the film "has presented disembodied audio as a religion unto itself" (The New York Times).

The Tailenders [2005] is 72 minutes with discussion to follow. Join us Wednesday for another Engineering, Technology, and Culture (ETC) event.

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