Description
Interviews with inventors, scientists, company founders, CEOs, authors, and Stanford professors and researchers pertaining
to the history of the electronics revolution, along with images from historic videos and still photographs. Narrated by Walter
Cronkite with additional commentary by Jim Gibbons, Mike Malone, and John R. McLaughlin. Persons interviewed include Linus
Pauling, David Packard, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy, Jim Clark, Larry Ellison, T. J. Rodgers, James Morgan, Paul Berg, Carl
Djerassi, and Donald Kennedy. Two songs by the Grateful Dead are included on the soundtrack.
Background
Produced and directed by John R. McLaughlin, president of the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association; issued in conjunction
with their book THE MAKING OF SILICON VALLEY: A ONE HUNDRED YEAR RENAISSANCE.
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