hrlaser@pnet02.UUCP (06/07/87)
A 30 minute television show, produced by PBS station KCET-28 in Los Angeles
was shown tonight (06 June 87) and will be repeated on that station
for Southern California viewers tomorrow 07 June 1987 at 11:00 pm PDT.
The program is called "California Stories: Contact" and makes the
heaviest use of Amigas I have yet seen in any aired program.
Contact is a group which met recently in Sacramento, CA. to discuss and
act out possible methods of contacting alien life forms on other planets
once such life forms have been discovered. Much of the 30 minute show
is hypothetical projection, much of it discussion of those projections.
The Amigas are used onscreen all during the show to display simulations
of return unmanned probeship picture feeds of an alien being's skull
located on the planet "Achilles" in the Alpha Centauri system, and then
the skull is "fleshed out" to simulate what this alien being would look
like, how it would sound, etc.
Commodore-Amiga was thanked in the credit for providing the computers.
I have no idea if this KCET production is propagating to the entire
PBS network of stations. Consult your local listings to see if your
city's PBS station is showing it.. it is WELL worth 30 minutes of your
time, not only for the subject matter, but to see Amigas actually being
used on a television show to DO something, instead of just sit there
looking like high-tech props.
Harv
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