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1 online resource (27 minutes) |
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This film examines the complete re-working of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the edition published in 1974. The project took a decade and a half, required 2.5 million man hours of editorial work in the Chicago office, and 32 million dollars. Most important were the combined efforts of 5,000 brains carefully chosen from throughout the world because of their knowledge of subjects which the editors were asking them to write about. After years of pondering and debate within the board of editors, a radically new design emerged. Information was to be edited and arranged in three different ways: 1) for quickly looking up facts, 2) going deeply into a particular topic, and 3) as a guide to comprehensive study of any subject or system of ideas. The important thing about encyclopedias is that they are efforts by man to put on paper what he has learned about himself or what he and all of the people before him have learned about themselves |
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5,000 Brains the film about the making of the 15th edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica, copyright 1974. Charles Swanson, Tom Goetz, Edward Levi, Clifton Fadiman, Mortimer Adler, Warren Preece, William Benton, encylopedias |
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Title from resource description page (viewed November 10, 2021) |
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In English |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica -- History
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Encyclopaedia Britannica. fast (OCoLC)fst01356308 |
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History
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English language -- Dictionaries.
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Learning and scholarship.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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English language.
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Learning and scholarship.
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Dictionaries.
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Documentary films.
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History.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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Streaming video
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Swanson, Charles, speaker
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Goetz, Thomas H., 1936- speaker.
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Levi, Edward H. (Edward Hirsch), 1911-2000, speaker.
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Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999, speaker, narrator.
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Adler, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Jerome), 1902-2001, speaker
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Preece, Warren E., speaker
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Benton, William, speaker
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Hollyman, Tom, director
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., publisher.
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