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Random pedagogical observation: this video does a phenomenal job at pausing for a second or two after providing you with something it’s asking you to wrap your head around. In the ed. biz, it’s called “wait time.” Processing time. A lot of videos today just charge through material or try to amuse or entertain you after hitting you with Big Facts, rather than giving you a second of just pure silence to process the new information being given to you.

All these old DoD documentaries are great, but many of them are shaky. I wish there is a option for Youtube to auto stabilize.

What are some stand-out ones you can remember?

From top of head I really enjoy:

MAPMAKING PROCESS, THE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lMu7GVVMZ4

mechanism computer of fire control computer (a classic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug

Physical science documentary series whose exact title I can't recall.

It has been a while. To find more, my method is to do the occasional PeriscopeFilm binge (on youtube that digitizes a lot of old media, with great descriptions), always find find something interesting I haven't watched. If style, delivery really good, there's usually something in description to point to more. Like "U.S. NAVY TRAINING FILM", which usually returns playlists, and videos in same era often share quality. The technical ones generally don't disappoint.

Another one is The Best Film Archives with good military training playlists.

Tangent for others: the one I wish to remember, is a deleted/banned channel, one of the original US archival footage channel, with I think 1000s of videos, that got wiped many years ago right when youtube started drm crackdown. It had a companion website with obsessive amount of detail and tags to find the perfect video. And from what I recall, it didn't feel like a business like periscopefilm, but a passion project. It was an incredible amount of work to have been wiped out.

The FM radio one was pretty interesting. They really worked out the pedagogy to explain how it works to people without a deep math background. You'll have to Google it

All of the old US gov't/mil funded education films are pretty good.

  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej7CRAIGXow
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agznZBiK_Bs
  * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4rc62KUKnI

Etc.

At least for when videos are uploaded, I believe YouTube offers that option.

Thought it was surprisingly great in how concise and clear it is able to communicate.

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