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فيلم وثائقيالسنة2020المدة1h 30mIMDb7.3

The Bit Player

فيلم وثائقيBiography

The Bit Player tells the story of an overlooked genius, Claude Shannon (the "Father of Information Theory"), who revolutionized the world, but never lost his childlike curiosity.

شاهد الآن

الإعلان الترويجي

طاقم العمل

Mark Levinson

Director

John Hutton

Claude Shannon

Judith Ivey

Betty Shannon

Kaliswa Brewster

Michelle

Andrew Pastides

Claude Shannon (young man)

Olivia Gilliatt

Norma Levor

VS

V.J. Scarpaci

Claude Shannon (boy)

TN

Toleeya Napolitano

Young girl neighbor

Adam Heller

Psychoanalyst

MG

Maura Grady

Norma's girlfriend

Cleve Asbury

Bell Labs Engineer

ML

Mark Lyons

Bell Labs Engineer

RM

Randall McNeal

Bell Labs Engineer

AP

Andrew Patrick Nelson

Bell Labs Engineer

Michael Rose

Bell Labs Engineer

RS

Remi Sandri

Bell Labs Engineer

Geoff Schuppert

Bell Labs Engineer

Jack Sochet

Bell Labs Engineer

KZ

Kurt Ziskie

Bell Labs Engineer

Mark Levinson

Writer

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10 تعليق

David👑May 29, 2023

source: The Bit Player

قراني حياتيNov 22, 2022

This is a tremendously good telling of Claude Shannon's work, career and impact which I think will be a great help in giving him the wide recognition he deserves. Someone said it's "not quite a documentary" which is not a criticism though and it takes few liberties with the facts, unlike the Imitation Game for example!

King Elijah SaNov 22, 2022

So few people have heard of Claude Shannon, and his impact is bigger than all of the household names. He sought a "universal theory of communication" for the accurate and efficient transmission of information. The documentary succeeds in explaining concepts simply and clearly. The film also links Shannon's interests in Information and communication to his early interests in codes. Commissioned by the IEEE Society, The Bit Player is the perfect title for this informative film portraying the "father of information theory".

wil.francis_Nov 22, 2022

First of all, you must understand that this is not a movie, it is a documentary; so well done that you could call it a movie. The "interview" is performed by actors, but so convincing, so very well done, that it appears to be the real Shannon, in the real interview. The interview's dialogues were based on real interviews though: done in a way so perfect, respectful, so convincing, recalling Shannon with grateful love (as it should be). All information presented here is true and extremely well explained. I read other comments here, that say that it lacks "real information". No. You must understand it well. The interview is performed by excellent actors but it also contains real pictures and scenes of the real Shannon. And the most important: The explanation of his Theory is done in a magnificent way. It is of course an "overall" explanation, but that goes to the heart of the problem and the solution. Explained in plain understandable English, for everyone. Want a more profound look at his theories? Read de Shannon original papers. They are publicly available. Congratulations to actors John Hutton, Judith Ivey, Kaliswa Brewster and of course to Mark A. Levinson, Writer, Producer and Director by this Excelent. Magnificent work. Thanks!!!

missamabella24Nov 22, 2022

Well!!! This is not a documentary but yes its good to have a content created for an overlooked genius. It is a kind of Documentary - Drama version. It has been enacted as per scripts however very well , undoubtedly. Actors has done pretty well job on that. You will not get any hints that it is a drama documentary type. All the interviews are re enacted of old contents. There would be always a question on contents if it is drama version, nevertheless worth watching. His achievements speak for themselves, and he is certainly a person whom anyone who uses a smartphone or computer should know about. The Bit Player is the perfect title for this informative. Cheers!!!!!

maymayNov 22, 2022

The problem with this documentary is the acted out interviews of Claude Shannon, his wife and the interviewer... who all unfortunately come across as amateur actors even though they aren't. The pausing for every thought is tedious to watch. The construct detracts from the actual information contained in the documentary and seems to take up at least a third of the overall running time. It made me think that I was watching some sort of mockumentary at first.

ErikaNov 22, 2022

I am very confused by this. Most of this documentary seems to be composed of a reconstruction by actors. There is very little real information, real photos or real footage. Also, if you are looking for a more in depth view of information theory, you will be very disappointed. This documentary focuses mostly on his life and the people in his life and teaches me almost nothing about information.

DJZinhleNov 22, 2022

As a software engineer, admittedly my desires for this documentary skewed more to the academic side than what might interest other viewers, but even then, the explanations were so superficial that I don't see how any of us could find this fulfilling. In regards to the equivalence between circuitry and Boolean logic, there were a few equations that flashed up for half a second. For the connection to entropy, an even briefer flash of an equation, with even less explanation about what any of the symbols are referring to. When researchers introduced a proof of concept for the Shannon limit, the narrative was "fancy that, these French and Thai people who I was ignoring happened to have made an incredible discovery. I wouldn't have thought it would be them." Who is this woman giving us her gossipy take on information theory? I didn't come for your cattiness, I wanted to hear *explanations* of Shannon's insights, along with his personal history. In terms of personal history, he wasn't a rock star or anything, so that wasn't sufficiently interesting to keep things going. What we ended up with was a simplistic tale of "smart guy did this and that thing which you don't really understand. Computers and tech and stuff". Incessant mentions of how he was the founder for all this, while mentioning Von Neumann just once; and Turing, never! Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace similarly got no mention at all. What a waste of material for a piece of entertainment.

MONDRAGONNov 22, 2022

This is a tremendously good telling of Claude Shannon's work, career and impact which I think will be a great help in giving him the wide recognition he deserves. Someone said it's "not quite a documentary" which is not a criticism though and it takes few liberties with the facts, unlike the Imitation Game for example!

K A M Y N ANov 22, 2022

Utterly charming. Ok, I am extremely biased (see below). Even so, this film portrays a man who was not only extraordinarily clever, but also incredibly curious. This happy coincidence of talents gave Claude Shannon an almost super-human ability to play, invent, and discover new 'toys' (which we would now call artificial intelligence), and new mathematical theorems (which we now call information theory). The film is mainly a re-enactment of a series of insightful interviews at Shannon's home during the 1980s. The acting is very fine, especially John Hutton who gives a genuine flavour of how Shannon would have been in his later years. We know this because the interview is inter-cut with snippets of home movies of Shannon riding his many unicycles (whilst juggling), and demonstrating his artificial mouse as it learns to navigate a maze. Background material is supplied by his son and daughter, who clearly loved the intellectual playfulness of their child-father. The technical commentary is finely balanced, giving just enough detail to let the audience know how relevant Shannon's work is to modern information systems. With regard to the importance of Shannon's work, even though he was not alone in trying to solve one of the key scientific problems of his time (i.e. how to define and measure information), he was alone in being able to produce a complete mathematical theory of information: a theory that might otherwise have taken decades to construct. In effect, Shannon single-handedly accelerated the rate of scientific progress, and it is entirely possible that, without his contribution, we would still be treating information as if it were some ill-defined vital fluid. A question repeated throughout the film is: Who is Claude Shannon? We should all know who Claude Shannon is. Sadly, because his work did not shorten a war (as far as we know), or involve any other dramatic world events, we are unlikely to see his life made into a movie like The Imitation Game (about Alan Turing). This is a monumental pity. As one commentator said, science fiction books sometimes quote the current year, not as BC, or BP, but AS (After Shannon, who died in 2001). That is how important he should be. Finally (and this is why I am biased), I think Shannon's theory of information (1948) is simply beautiful. James V Stone, 27th June, 19 (AS).

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