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I was expecting explanations to begin shortly, got bored after the second stunt. The format is, frankly, horrible. This must be the analog of the "You want a tu
by CraneWorm 6y ago
I was expecting explanations to begin shortly, got bored after the second stunt. The format is, frankly, horrible. This must be the analog of the "You want a tutorial to do X? Lemme record myself writing painfully slowly in "New Document.txt to explain it." style of tutorials.
- dmitryminkovsky 6y agoYeah the stunts and music are slow by our standards, but skip past them and you may find it interesting? It's a great video if you don't know about car differentials.
- crispyambulance 6y agoThe explanation, if you get past the 2 minutes of the synchronized motorcycle-riding, is remarkably lucid and to the point. It starts from the most primary considerations and fully explains the concept. It is neither dumbed down nor laden with jargon. I wish more general-audience presentations today strived for the same. What more can you possibly want? Perhaps the patience level of audiences of that era was much higher than today? But that's OK, now, thanks to modern media technology, you can randomly access any part of the presentation or speed it up at will.
- MPSimmons 6y agoMotorcycles were a much newer concept in 1937 than they are today. The first "modern" motorcycle was released in 1915, according to the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_motorcycle#The_First_World_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_motorcycle#The_...
- JKCalhoun 6y agoLOL, I think our attention spans are different. Also, we're not the captive audience sitting on folding chairs in the cafeteria with the 16mm projector rolling in the background — we can hit the back button if in a few seconds we are not drawn in.