Fox News - God Bless the USA - WITH CHRYON

Fox news music video on 20th Sep 2001 tape. "God Bless the U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood. This version shows the historical chryon running, showing what was going on.

EXCELLENT CATCH! Both links WERE to the one without Chyron. I screwed up. Here are the links to the different versions. My apologies for the confusion.

Without Chyron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCoZwq-uefU&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCooAYmmy31Wlo6SM4_sWqKS&index=1

With Chyron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W8E911f7Ec&list=PLYTtL1FB2XCooAYmmy31Wlo6SM4_sWqKS&index=2

No matter how much I tried, I couldn’t make the thumbnail show the chyron strip. YouTube keeps cutting it off the thumbnail, even though it shows when you play the video.

There’s a strange man who writes aggressive things to me on YouTube that I ignore. His last one was about my putting up the News playlist about 9/11, when he called it “old news.” It’s not to me. It has to be remembered. A lot of what is up now about that day has been sanitized, like Father Judge being killed by falling debris rather than by a falling woman. I think the issue of protecting the feelings of those who lost people that day is an excuse for not letting people feel the pain as deeply as they did at first. It’s a political changing of memories so that the young never know. I went to U of Chicago, where we studied source material rather than text books. Keeping these videos alive is my version of source material.

Thank you SO much for your kind comments on the fine art and Christmas videos. Christmas - well, it’s irresistible to integrate all of my life together. Fine art - I may not want to spend hours pouring over my old art books, but I do want to be able to spend 4 minutes to remember. So I’m still searching for the right pieces of music to put together videos on French Impressionism, Rodin’s statues, religious art, etc. Then when I want to remember how much I loved the beauty, I’ll be able to remember for a few minutes. I’ve put my high school classmates and grandfather and mother and my town to music. It’s like a video scrapbook, instead of my old photo ones. I can’t tell you how good it feels to have someone watch and share those emotions.

Actually, since I ‘met’ you here, I’ve looked at a lot of them. The 9-11 ones take me right back to that morning; I was home from work and watching MSNBC. Just like one woman interviewed on the ground, my first thought was that something had gone wrong with the airplanes or air traffic control. The reality was unthinkable.

I like what you did with the Kaleidoscope; and the Dr. Who/Van Gogh video was beautiful.

I think my husband and I were most affected by the video about John Cocke - to the point of watching some of the extended interviews. We looked at each other and had the same thought: we are seeing some of the people who helped to create the world we live in today! He seems to have been such an interesting and lovely man. (I’m still trying to get my head around his concept of dreams ;-)

You are a very creative and thoughtful person. I’m glad you are here.

I get locked into events. When something important happens, I just sit on the end of the bed and stare at the TV. Usually with the recorder going. At least I used to. I just went down to the basement and pulled out the Falkland War, the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake and the Gulf War, as well as the Ollie North hearings. I’ll try one of each and see if there’s interest in them.

I’m so pleased you liked the Dr Who/Van Gogh one. That’s one of my favorites. It’s a heartbreaking episode. I also did the song for Star Trek since Leonard Nimoy did a one man show as Vincent’s brother, so I cut back and forth between the one man show and Star Trek.

The Kaleidescope video was the end of dreaming for years. I did a local half hour TV show and met amazing people. Steve Grimes loved my videos and after hearing my dream, built that for me. He filled his version with a broken beer bottle and little metal pieces. I did mine with mostly Christmas miniatures. I made a video of him as one of my Christmas pieces but I don’t seem to have put it up yet. There was another wondrous character who used to write up these analysis pieces of my songs and would leave things written on used McDonald French Fry boxes on my doorstep. I so much enjoyed that year.

One of the best things about the John Cocke video is that it makes people believe that many of his qualities are theirs as well. And if he can be like that and still be brilliant, then they can be, too. I really like that aspect. John thought I understood him because I chaired computer programming languages. I didn’t. He would talk at me in the hallway with a cigarette in his mouth and I’d back away until I hit the wall and couldn’t go any further. Then he would keep talking until he finished and walk away and I’d just stare. John never wrote anything and IBM had other computer scientists follow John and write down what he said. They offered the job to my husband, who turned them down because he had his own language he wanted to develop. Everyone who followed John and wrote the papers as coauthor became famous. On the full video I did an unusual video thing - I let John ramble for one straight minute. That’s because it brought out John’s essential nature, which normal editing wouldn’t have. I still have the other half of John’s original footage to go thru and put up. I have to edit out anything embarrassing. Abe Peled, the VP I directly worked for, is going up in a few minutes. I would have crawled over glass for that man. What I actually did was take out a 1/3 of a second between his sentences to make him appear more assertive. Oh, that first shot of Fran in the full video - I had to construct those sentences out of her footage word by word and put them under the scene I had the steadicam operator shoot as she was memorizing her lines in the Research hallway.

I love the people in FR - even the cranky ones. It’s a lovely community and I feel at home among conservatives. Most of my friends are of the other persuasion. Sigh. It’s wonderful to meet you, too.

Best extended remarks on John - Andy Heller. He was a wild drinking companion of John’s and had some great stories. Ed Fredkin had his face on the cover of a magazine when I interviewed him. My cameraman made him comfortable by talking airplanes with him. I believe he also owned an island! The X3J13 video is hands down the most popular. The two men playing the game of hands in the middle are the big names in the field. I loved crawling around on the floor to catch John Backus in his group meeting. Besides inventing Fortran, he invented Backus-Naur Form and Reduction Languages. Another fascinating computer scientist.

I think the checks story was Andy Heller. I think they wanted to do the video of John because he was so ill. He was barely back at work and everyone was afraid he was so fragile they would lose him soon. And they loved him with an intensity it’s hard to describe. Everyone. That video of him talking in the hallway with Chris - Chris died suddenly of an aneurism. Brilliant, kind man that I adored. Totally strange, as were so many of the researchers. It wasn’t the IBM button down environment. I’m the one that comes in to direct the two of them. In the full video, the man sitting in the hallway with John is my husband Paul. That was the most glorious building to work in. 300 acres with a stream going thru it. Of course, if you wanted to leave you were out in the boonies and there were no jobs around. Abe’s upload completes in 16 min.

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