I realise it is lazy blogging, but today I would just like to flag this tv program up. The Genius of Invention aired last night, but by then we had opened a bottle of a very good south african white, so the program didn’t have my full attention. However, I just rewatched it on Iplayer, and I’m glad I did. It’s straight up my street, offering quite a good potted history of photography, early cinema and television, albeit from a scientific rather than artistic perspective. I’ve been very interested in such things for some time, so I found it a great bit of tv. Of course, it doesn’t look very deeply into it’s subject – it is, after all, only an hour long – but for what it is, it is excellent. A good springboard for other avenues of research.