ecn-pa:ecn-pc:dwm (03/20/83)
Young men and women ( real young ) today dream of being space warriors. There is nothing one can really do to keep them from the cowboy and indian stuff of my time. Adventure is something that should not be taken away from kids or life in general. I remember only one show ( off hand ) that had a Engineer in it when I was a kid, that was My Three Sons. However that didn't play with the role as Engineer Father, just Kind, Understanding Father. Engineers don't seem to get the attraction they ( deserve ) in the movies. I think "The Soul of A New whatever" would make for quite a surge. I know that atleast a few Computer/Electrical Engineers would like it. Provided of course they make it in such away a. Exactly how to make a movies about Computers I have know Idea. I keep them up and Backed up, but I am not a film maker. Maybe they could throw in some Starwars type effects ( with oscilloscope's ) or something. DON'T YOU THINK IT'S TIME ENGINEERS GOT SOME RECOGNITION !!!!!!!! -Just an Opinion of Course-
chrys (03/23/83)
Why so concerned about recognition for engineers? What about farmers, truck drivers, parks maintenance people, secretaries, garbage men?
pgf (03/24/83)
While I was at Lehigh U. the Metallurgy dept. presented (for fun) a movie starring Jimmy Stewart as an absent-minded materials engineer. It has to be one of the few movies with an engineer as hero, and perhaps the *only* one about a metallurgist. Marlene Dietrich was co-star, and the movie was just wonderful... I just wish I could remember the title. Maybe it was something like "No [something] in the Sky". The basic plot was that Stewart had to figure out why the wings kept falling off a new airplane before too many people died. I'm just not sure that catching the dreaded glitch with a logic analyzer will have quite the same impact...
crc (03/24/83)
THe movie with Jimmy Stewart was "No Highway In The Sky". The co-star was, I believe, June Allison(spell?). The plot was that Stewart's character thought the tail would fall off the new aircraft, and he wanted to prove it before anyone got killed. /crc
jlw (03/25/83)
The movie in question about the engineer would have been "No Highway in the Sky". I never saw the movie but the book was by Nevil Schute. Joe Wood ariel!jlw
crc (03/25/83)
Nevil Schute and Alfred Hitchcock were both engineers. I think it safe to say that both could communicate very well. -Charles Colbert