Hello,

I saw a screening last night of The Bit Player at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mtn. View, CA USA.  It was quite an impressive film.  Interviews with Shannon, including an extensive one in the early 1980s at his home, formed the basis of much of the film by way of a key one being reproduced using actors.  John Hutton played Shannon - he has extensive acting chops on stage (including as King Lear; some info here) and on film (various, including a small part in Spielberg's Lincoln as Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner).  It was a brilliant way to tell Shannon's story as it portrayed his in-person eccentricities - and there is no significant actual footage of this aspect of Shannon.  This was accompanied by interesting animations and discussion of his seminal paper and famous Master's thesis in order to convey the gravity of his importance, along with portions of the 1952 “Theseus” Maze-Solving Mouse film.  The film was concluded with just-discovered brief footage of Shannon juggling on a unicycle - that was fantastic to see!

Enjoy.