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The World Of Buckminster Fuller

First transmitted in 1964, Horizon profiles Buckminster Fuller, the inventor of the geodesic dome.

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45 minutes

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Sat 2 May 1964 20:45

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50 Years of Horizon Collection

50 Years of Horizon Collection
This programme is part a collection of 麻豆社 programmes specially chosen to celebrate Horizon's 50th anniversary.

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Programmes are selected, in part, for their historical context and reflect the broadcast standards and attitudes of their time, which may not accord to some current 麻豆社 editorial guidelines. We aim to select programmes which can be shown in their entirety but in some cases edits are required.

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This was the first-ever edition of Horizon. In the Radio Times, the film's editor Philip Daly explained that its aim was: "to provide a platform from which some of the world's greatest scientists and philosophers can communicate their curiosity, observations, and reflections, and infuse into our common knowledge their changing views of the universe."

Daly commented of Buckminster Fuller that "he is thought by some to be 'the greatest living genius of industrial-technical realisation in building,' by others to be 'a crackpot'. He is not a qualified scientist, engineer, or architect, yet he has made outstanding contributions in all three fields."

50 Years of Horizon - interactive ebook

50 Years of Horizon - interactive ebook
A free, interactive ebook designed for use on Apple, Android and Kindle tablets, and featuring clips from this selection of programmes as well as interviews with current Horizon presenters, is available to download at

Credits

Role Contributor
Participant Buckminster Fuller
Producer Ramsay Short
Editor Philip Daly
Film Editor Peter Cantor

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