* more voices and stories from German tv

After days without web access I'm online again. My home office router started corroding and getting a new one and that new one connected with our German Telekom is a special affair...
Amazing to think back to those days when we communicated and organized entire conferences without web acces. It just didn't exist then, but we worked it all out quite well in other – maybe even less stressful ways!
So – my second interview session in Cologne went really well again. I had the former manager and the former senior art director of the RTL TV Dpt. to discuss my questions with. Both are now lecturing at different universities and are looking across that past period of active production work in a similar way as I do. This obviously comes with lecturing... With both of them, it turned into a very lively talk. We started at the early beginnings when tv design was produced on cardboard and then filmed with a camera... or if you would create an animation, it would take days until you got the exposed film back and could see how it turned out.
The major innovation which came with Paintbox was that small buffer for instantly viewable cell animations, and then Harry gave a us a full minute of image storage. Today all of this is vastly different – we hardly think of anything like storage anymore. It's simply there and gets larger each day!
Something else when thinking back is the memory of a simple realization during the production of commercial spots: commercials for tv in Germany were usually timed
"750 frames", equalling 30 seconds. This was how I started getting a feeling for frames and seconds, for timing and time in general. It seems to fly away faster and faster now.
Today I'll head off to my next interviews in Munich, and then Zurich is on the schedule mid week. Meanwhile I've also been busy finding supporters and participants in the UK and US communities, who make me very happy by responding very well to this idea and supporting it with great contacts and ideas. I am thrilled to mention that Martin Lambie-
Nairn will be part of this venture, and Lee Hunt from NY sent me this great link which might be interesting for all of us: https://keyframesthefilm.wordpress.com/about/   
So far I didn't have time to watch it (and for the past days no web access...,) but it is described as pretty close to what I'm trying to do together with you all in this project.
However, it is a digital documentary film, and so, again – to find it in a bookstore or library might be too hard. I'm still all in with a book for this. It may sound a little pathetic, but I simply believe that books will last longer than web content.
Talk again soon, I'm off to Munich now!