Our Library just got a copy of the book "Software Pioneers:
Contributions to Software Engineering", Manfred Broy and Ernst Denert
(Eds.), Springer.  This book is a collection of talks given at the
Software Pioneers conference, June 28-29, 2001.  It comes with 4
DVDs.

I turned to the chapter on Alan Kay and noticed that there were just
two pages devoted to him.  (There is an incorrect e-mail address and
it says that he is at Disney).  It also says this:

    Alan Kay presented the history of man-machine interfaces, in
    particular graphical user interfaces.  His lecture gained its
    vividness mainly from demonstrations and several historical
    videos.  This is hardly reproducible in a paper.  Therefore, we
    refer the reader to the DVD recording of Alan Kay's talk (DVD
    no. 2).

I eagerly inserted the DVD into my computer.  What a disappointment!
The talk was very good, but it wasn't possible to see what was going
on in any of the video demos!  The person taking the video didn't get
any close shots of the screen.  I think he was using Squeak for part
of his demo, but it was hard to tell for sure.

I was hoping to finally see some of Alan's videos, especially after
the introduction that the book gave.  Has anyone else been
disappointed by this?  Alan mentioned a video that he was putting
together for the computer museum.  Is it available?

Rick Zaccone