History of Animation

Apparently, this book hit a nerve. Or several.
According to media reports, Apple Computer removed all of the titles published by John Wiley & Sons from its retail stores to protest this book. Included were the successful Dummies series, as well as computer-related volumes from popular authors Andy Ihnatko and Bob LeVitus.

From its humble beginnings as a novelty in a handful of cities, cinema has risen to become a billion-dollar industry and the most spectacular and original contemporary art form. Though we often consider cinema to be synonymous with "Hollywood," in truth, it has spread to all parts of the globe, and is enjoyed by audiences that cut across all sections of society.

I haven’t seen this new History of Comedy installment, which is all about humor in animation. But when it comes to television, if it’s a well-researched hour, it’ll start with Crusader Rabbit, Jay Ward’s pioneering precursor to his “Rocky & Bullwinkle” series, syndicated circa 1950.

Dan Snow gets down and dirty in the murky histories of London, Paris and New York, exploring their filthy histories from the bottom up.

The look at Non Euclidean Geometry is part of the History of Mathematics and profiles some of the main figures involved including Carl Friedrich Gauss & Wolfgan & Yanosh Bolyai. The programme also examines the different Geometries that they explored. The short about Paul Banchoffs attempts to visualise the unseeable 4th Dimension is intriguing and includes a nice animation of a hypercube (or tesseract).