James Burke : Connections², E0102, "Revolutions" & "Sentimental Journeys", 1 of 5

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Episodes 1 and 2 of James Burke's Connections², which is the first of two sequels to the original Connections series. In this series, Mr. Burke continues his investigations into the interconnectedness of ideas and inventions that, usually serendipitously, led to important changes our modern-day world. The format has changed to 25 minute episodes with each episode less focused and much more free-form. Mr. Burke may take a particular historical figure and then expand on a vast array of subsequent, and important discoveries and inventions directly, or indirectly resulting from there, or he may take several origins and see how they ultimately come together resulting in some unexpected consequence (as in Connections 1).

From a K-web point of view, this series may be visually seen as type of random walk exploration through "connection space" as a child may do on their first visit, perhaps before discovering a particular topic or thread they may wish to pursue in more detail. Visit http://k-web.org for more information.

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[wegreenall]

finally i understand what he was talking about with that pump! how the hell did he know that was one of the bits i didn't understand?!

[JamesBurkeWeb]

haha. He must be psychic!

[DaveKovacs82]

This was always one of my favourite episodes.

It reminds me of when the book came out around the same time (The Pinball Effect), several of us in high school bought it and made a game: Someone called out an event, and we took turns spinning our own series of connections from it (Thanks in large part to the "hyperlinks" in the margin). Whoever got stuck without being able to remember an event to link to lost the round.

Great fun!

[JamesBurkeWeb]

That does sound like a fun game!

Maybe it could be marketed for use in classrooms as an aid in learning "connectively" as k-web aims to do?

- JBW

[BlueToad2222]

@JamesBurkeWeb anything ever become of this?

[BlueToad2222]

@DaveKovacs82 anything ever become of this?

[TOproFORthis]

250p we meet again...

[majesticskymusic]

JAMES---PLEASE MAKE SOME MORE OF THESE---EVEN IF ITS FROM

YOUR LIVING ROOM -JUST TALK ABOUT HISTORY- AND RECORD IT ON VIDEO-AND UPLOAD TO U TUBE----PLEASE..............TH­ANKYOU

[oilchng]

Thank you very much for your contribution to us all . I hope you have been rewarded and awarded greatly .

[clray123]

Hmm, watching this right after the 1978 series he seems to be "running out of steam". The 16 years must have eaten away some of the enthusiasm. Or maybe it is due to a changed production crew?

[Kodemaster]

Thank you for posting these! I sure wish TLC would bring this series back. Enough with the "reality" show rubbish.

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Yes, sorry about that. I would've done it in single episodes with the current setup. Before there was just one "playlists" page so having 20 boxes just seemed too lengthy / inconvenient to browse through.

[kcjenner1]

I think I can see where some might get confused with these. They appear to be presented in a similar way that the DVDs I just got for TDTUC. (pairing two episodes together E0102 = Episode 1 and 2) On top of that is YouTube's typical 10 minutes time limit makes it into 5 video clips = Ep. 1 and 2 - Video 1 of 5,

Ep 3 and 4 - Video 1 of 5. etc.

Someone who is familiar with the series or DVDs probably doesn't get confused as much as those without any previous exposure to James Burke films.