<story><title>Walt Disney&apos;s MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>Old instructional videos so much more informative than today’s. They’re so simple. Clear narration, simple animations, music is appropriate and minimal. They don’t overload our senses in the way modern videography does. It seems to me that everything today is optimized for the highest cognitive load - sort of similar to the “loudness war” in music, but for videos. Popular videos on YT are optimized for clicks and likes and subscribes.&lt;p&gt;For example, compare Mythbusters first season vs the last. Another example is “The secret life of Machines”; amazing BBC series on how things work.&lt;p&gt;I love old videography so much. I could watch highly technical instructional videos like this all day without fatigue. Such a great pleasure. Thank for sharing this!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rangibaby</author><text>Old technical writing is the same. Check out this camera repair manual from the 80s: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dropbox.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;36tlkpnrsbmszar&amp;#x2F;nikon_fe-fe2.pdf?dl=0&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dropbox.com&amp;#x2F;s&amp;#x2F;36tlkpnrsbmszar&amp;#x2F;nikon_fe-fe2.pdf?d...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clear, easy to understand. A patient person without any prior knowledge of cameras or tools could follow the instructions in here and completely disassemble and reassemble the camera as well as troubleshooting any problems with it.&lt;p&gt;I think the reason is 
A) there was no internet! These books and TV shows were as good as it got. No googling if you have any questions.&lt;p&gt;B) They had to appeal to a lot of people. Now the audience is bigger and everything is more niche. General TV has deteriorated to news entertainment, sports, and reality shows, because that is all anyone who watches TV now is interested in.&lt;p&gt;I was shocked at how good this segment from the &amp;quot;glory days&amp;quot; of TV was: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;eDw5Y8qSmBk&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;eDw5Y8qSmBk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s interesting and well researched. They spent plenty of money doing locations etc. Network TV just isn&amp;#x27;t this good anymore.</text></comment>
<story><title>Walt Disney&apos;s MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHTlUGN1zw</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>fermienrico</author><text>Old instructional videos so much more informative than today’s. They’re so simple. Clear narration, simple animations, music is appropriate and minimal. They don’t overload our senses in the way modern videography does. It seems to me that everything today is optimized for the highest cognitive load - sort of similar to the “loudness war” in music, but for videos. Popular videos on YT are optimized for clicks and likes and subscribes.&lt;p&gt;For example, compare Mythbusters first season vs the last. Another example is “The secret life of Machines”; amazing BBC series on how things work.&lt;p&gt;I love old videography so much. I could watch highly technical instructional videos like this all day without fatigue. Such a great pleasure. Thank for sharing this!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Stratoscope</author><text>If you like old instructional videos and documentaries, the Internet Archive has a bunch of them, particularly in the Prelinger Archives.&lt;p&gt;Here are a few favorites...&lt;p&gt;Private Life of a Cat (silent): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;PrivateL1947&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;PrivateL1947&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back of the Mike: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;Backofth1938&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;Backofth1938&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;How a Watch Works: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;HowaWatc1949&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;HowaWatc1949&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Using the Bank: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;Usingthe1947&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&amp;#x2F;details&amp;#x2F;Usingthe1947&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>