the guy by the door …

…and apparently someone else.

I found this posted on G level of Littauer [the old one.] Nicely done. Art and economics. Pop quiz. Identify the pictures. I know the second offhand, but I will have to Google the first. Hmm, I think I’ve got it, but I’ll Google to be sure.

I did know the answer to the first picture. I don’t see it offered in the near future at the Harvard Film Archive*, but I’m sure it’s available on DVD.

On looking at the second picture again, I realize that I don’t have any special knowledge about it. It is, obviously high tech. I initially assumed from the clean suit that it was semiconductor microchip manufacture, but mybe not. The technician in clean suit is looking at one of a row of monitors. I don’t know what is in h(er|is) hand. => I don’t know if the technician is a man or a woman. In the early days of integrated circuit manufacture, the workers who sat for hours at microscopes microsoldering the the chips to package leads where overwhelmingly women. I was in high school then. In college, the doctor from Planned Parenthood who came to give us a birds, bees, and condom talk***, added that the technicians who handled the eggs in vaccine manufacture were overwhelmingly women. But it’s different now?

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*You might like, En El Hoyo** offered on Saturday October 21 as part of the Boston Latino International Film Festival. Mass College of Art and the Latino Arts Center are cosponsors. I don’t know the full meaning of that.
**according to Google translate it means “In the Hole” although it sounds like the film happens above the main roadway.
***I think the Dean of Women at the time was the fossil that called the freshman women together and told them not to wear patent leather shoes. She retired early in my college career. She was worried about reflections. I’m not making this up. She had been there for a Sagan of years and it was a small Methodist school. She was worried about reflections.