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1969TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, GENERAL
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER SPECIFIES THE FOUNDATION OF HIS WORK AS THE ESSENTIAL HONESTY OR INTEGRITY OF NATURE'S GEOMETRY. ANALYZES NATURAL STRUCTURES & THE PRACTICAL MEANING OF NATURE'S OSCILLATION BETWEEN SYMMETRY & ASYMMETRY, EXPANSION & CONTRACTION.
PHYSICS, ARCHITECTURE, MATH. CLASSROOM LECTURE.

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TITLE CARD: THE STRUCTURE OF NATURE, OR I'M GOING TO TAKE YOU TO BREAKFAST YESTERDAY MORNING
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BUCKMINSTER FULLER LECTURING TO STUDENTS ABOUT ANGLES, TRIANGLES AND LINEAR SIDES, CAMERA ZOOMS OUT TO REVEAL STUDENTS ON STOOLS AND AT TABLE LISTENING, TALKS ABOUT ABSTRACTION, DESCRIBES AND EXPERIMENT WITH SPLICING ROPES OF DIFFERENT MATERIAL TOGETHER, LONG ABSTRACT DESCRIPTION OF TYING A KNOT THAT SEGUES INTO ATOMS AND ENERGY
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THREE MALE COLLEGE STUDENTS LISTENING TO FULLER
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MS OF FULLER TALKING ABOUT HUMANS BEING MINIATURE UNIVERSES, TALKING WITH HIS HANDS
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CAMERA ZOOMS OUT TO REVEAL BORED STUDENTS, ONE LOOKS LIKE HE'S DOODLING, FULLER TALKS ABOUT PLAYING FILM BACKWARDS AND PUTTING TRACERS IN THE BODY TO TRACK ISOTOPES, CAMERA ZOOMS IN FOR EXTREME CLOSE UP OF FULLER'S FACE
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FULLER GETS A LAUGH FROM STUDENTS OFF CAMERA, CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON FULLER'S FACE, ECU, ZOOMS OUT TO MS, TALKS ABOUT PATTERN INTEGRITY AND BEING FUNDAMENTALLY IMMORTAL
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BLACK SLUG
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BUCKMINSTER FULLER IN LECTURE ROOM WITH SHOWING OFF MODEL OF A ICOSAHEDRON (20 SIDED FIGURE), DISCUSSES VECTORS AND QUANTUMS, DEMONSTRATES BY TAKING OUT 6 EDGES ON THE MODEL, CHAOS IS MAXIMUM ASYMMETRY, NATURE ABHORS AND EQUILIBRIUM, GIVES AN EXAMPLE ABOUT SUBMARINES AND AIRPLANES
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CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON ICOSAHEDRON AND FULLER MANIPULATES IT BY COLLAPSING TO A OCTAHEDRON, REPEATS MANY TIMES, GEOMETRIC DEMONSTRATION
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DEMONSTRATED THE CONCEPT AS APPLIED TO SPACE
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FULLER DEMONSTRATES THE USE OF TORQUE WHEN APPLIED TO HIS MODEL, BECOMES A TETRAHEDRON
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FULLER DEMONSTRATES EXPERIMENT WITH ROPE, ASKS FOR STUDENT TO HELP
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MS OF HIPPIE STUDENT TWISTING ROPES, NODS, SMILES
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FULLER AT BLACK BOARD TWISTING ROPES, REFERS TO ROPES AS SHE
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CAMERA ZOOMS IN ON TWISTING ROPE
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MS OF FULLER TWISTING ROPES TOGETHER, REFERS TO THE ROPES AS A SHE (SHE MIGHT BEHAVE VERY BADLY) SEXIST LANGUAGE
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MS OF STUDENT HOLDING ROPES, FULLER ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE FROM STUDENTS, YELLS AT STUDENTS, SMILING STUDENT, ROPE COILS UP ON ITSELF, FULLER CALLS THE ROPE A SHE, SEXIST TERMINOLOGY
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FULLER AND STUDENT WRESTLING WITH ROPE, TWISTED TIGHT SECTION OF ROPE, ZOOMS IN N FULLER WITH ROPE,
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