I love the show How It’s Made. If you’ve never heard of it, the show is a documentary-style presentation of the manufacturing all number of things, from large industrial items like locomotives and cranes to medium-sized dry goods like food, pencils, clothing, you name it. Each episode includes four segments for separate items selected at a randomness that would make a young AI blush. Season 8: Episode 5, to take an example I saw recently, covers the making of horseshoes, dishwashers, graphite fly rods, and frozen pizzas. The show has other charms, too. It has no on-screen host or explanatory text, no talking heads of any sort. The unseen narrator adds a little color here and there about steps in the process and always a final terrible pun. (E.g.: “These high-precision drill bits are never boring.”) The focus is on the making process, and the “It” is treated as the most generic of pronouns.
How It's Made
How It's Made
How It's Made
I love the show How It’s Made. If you’ve never heard of it, the show is a documentary-style presentation of the manufacturing all number of things, from large industrial items like locomotives and cranes to medium-sized dry goods like food, pencils, clothing, you name it. Each episode includes four segments for separate items selected at a randomness that would make a young AI blush. Season 8: Episode 5, to take an example I saw recently, covers the making of horseshoes, dishwashers, graphite fly rods, and frozen pizzas. The show has other charms, too. It has no on-screen host or explanatory text, no talking heads of any sort. The unseen narrator adds a little color here and there about steps in the process and always a final terrible pun. (E.g.: “These high-precision drill bits are never boring.”) The focus is on the making process, and the “It” is treated as the most generic of pronouns.