TVSquad

I'm one of those people who needs a creative outlet or I start to go insane. When I'm not pounding out posts about TV on this blog, I'm usually writing something else, or drawing, or playing around with my four-track recorder. My love of music and the creative process attracted me to the video below, which runs about eight minutes and gives a rather detailed account of how the theme to the old Doctor Who series was both composed and performed. I have never seen a single episode of any incarnation of Doctor Who, but that really doesn't matter, I was just fascinated by how all this equipment, most of which is now completely obsolete, was used to create the futuristic theme for the show.

If you're a Doctor Who fan, check it out. If you're a fan of electronic music, check it out. If you're neither of those things, then I have nothing for you. Try checking back later.

[via Brad Sucks]

So, you might be asking yourself, who in the heck is Elma Farnsworth and why should I care about her? Well, let's just say that if it weren't for Elma and her inventor husband, Philo T. Farnsworth, you might not be reading this blog right now. The couple helped to develop the television as we know it today. While early televisions were black and white, the actual history of the television isn't quite as much so. The Farnsworths are often credited with inventing television, but they really did what most inventors do, which is improve on designs that were already in existence, or had been tested by other inventors. History also acknowledges Elma as the first woman on television, as her image was transmitted on a three-inch screen for the first time in 1929. She passed away Thursday at the age of 98.