5.3: Falling In

Show Notes

They're back! MSB came back! Hurray!
This week we're talking about War in the Pocket episode 2: Reflections in a Brown Eye. The research covers Al's home electronics and what they say about him and the story, plus... Chris's pile of dropped books from episode 1? Really? Well, OK.
Plus we have a mini celebration for Gundam's 10th anniversary!
Frank Kelly Freas - The Art of Science Fiction:

The Wikipedia page for Kelly Freas, and his (unfinished) website,
A detailed profile of Kelly Freas hosted on PulpArtists.com.
His New York Times obituary.
A bibliography of his works from the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
His book (the one Chris drops) is: Kelly Freas, Frank Kelly Freas: The Art of Science Fiction. Donning (1977).
Some iconic works: Star Trek portraits, the cover from a Bradbury short story, and the cover for Heinlein's "Have Space Suit - Will Travel." 

Consumer Electronics, 1988 / UC0080:

Books: McCreery, John. Japanese Consumer Behaviour: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. Accessed (excerpts only) here. LaMarre, Thomas. The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media. University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Alt, Matt. Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World. Crown, 2021.
Some statistics: the fertility rate in Japan, 1800-2020, color TV ownership in Japan, 1984, and households in Japan with television, 1988. 
Wikipedia pages for light guns generally, and the NES Zapper.
Article about Bandai's light gun peripheral.
Page about the Dragon's Lair TV series.
Pages on the history of the videocamera and the camcorder from Wikipedia, the LegacyBox blog (a home video digitization service), and CCTV Camera World (sales of cameras and other equipment for CCTV, page includes some useful information on the transition to digital). 
Storage media! Wikipedia pages for the floppy disk and 8mm video format.
Specific camera models: the Handycam series and the Mavica.
What does "still video" mean?? 
Page with names, pictures, and specifications of camera by release-year (this page is for 1988). Several looks similar in shape and overall aesthetic to Al's camcorder.

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