In this opening episode Mr. Fuller offers his definition of the design scientist and explains how his desire to improve living conditions in the world motivated his revolutionary structures. Efficiency, and an understanding of working relationships between the scientific specialties (biology, mathematics, physics, geology, chemistry, astronautics, etc.) and a willingness to take an iconoclastic approach to conventional architectural ideas - these, he points out, have been the guidelines to his work. The viewer sees a dymaxion three-wheeled car that Mr. Fuller invented in the early thirties; his DEW Line buildings; and the Fuller prefabricated houses in Puerto Rico. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) R. Buckminster Fuller a man who has been called the first poet of technology and the greatest living genius of industrial technical realization in building talks of himself and his ideas on this richly illustrated three-episode series. The Fuller World presents the revolutionary architectural contributions of this scientist-philosopher in terms of his own concept of the world and the needs of mankind. The Fuller World is a 1963 production of WGBH-TV, Boston for NET. Original music composed and conducted by Daniel Pinkham. The 3 half-hour episodes that comprise this series were originally recorded on videotape. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
