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 <https://cupresents.org/2016/02/24/john-hutton-returns-csf/>) 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 <http://cyberneticzoo.com/mazesolvers/1952-%E2%80%93-theseus-maze-solving-mouse-%E2%80%93-claude-shannon-american/>. The film was concluded with just-discovered brief footage of Shannon juggling on a unicycle - that was fantastic to see! More info, presented in an excellent and sophisticated fashion, is at www.TheBitPlayer.com <http://www.thebitplayer.com/> The panel who discussed the film after the screening (including Writer/Producer/Director Mark Levinson) noted that there would be a screening of the film in San Francisco in September. I do not know where else it will be shown in the future. The website shows the CHM screening as the film's third. It's the quality of film that I could easily and eagerly watch a second time even as soon as next month. Do study the website as it is brilliantly executed. This was the first documentary film funded by the IEEE Foundation, and it was done in conjunction with the IEEE Information Theory Society (ITS). BTW, the ITS is the only IEEE society whose "basis" has a definitive starting date - the 1948 publication of Shannon's *A Mathematical Theory of Communication <http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entropy/entropy.pdf>* . Enjoy. _________________________ Brian A. Berg / bberg@StanfordAlumni.org Berg Software Design 14500 Big Basin Way, Suite F, Saratoga, CA 95070 USA Voice: 408.741.5010 / Cell: 408.568.2505 Consulting: Flash Memory/USB/Storage/Patents visit the Storage Cornucopia: www.bswd.com FMS Technical Chair: www.FlashMemorySummit.com IEEE Milestone <http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestones:List_of_IEEE_Milestones> Coordinator and History Chair for Region 6 <http://www.ieee-region6.org/> IEEE SCV Section <http://www.ieee.org/scv/> Past Chair / IEEE-CNSV <http://www.CaliforniaConsultants.org> Board Director IEEE Silicon Valley Tech History Committee <http://www.SiliconValleyHistory.com/> Chair