Be sure to pick at least 720p for best sound quality. Noam begins at 0:50 seconds in.
Noam Chomsky spoke sometime in 1997, on the subject of Language and Mind. I am uncertain of the locale, it might be Princeton, it might be Harvard. If you recognize the campus, please leave a comment to that effect.
The source file had difficulties in particular with the video, the gamma was shifted toward it being overly bright. I reduced the contrast, gamma and brightness, to make it look less blaring, as it were. But it’s still not good, alas.
The sound I had better luck with. Using digital noise reduction, I managed to get it to about 55 decibels of dynamic range generally – though there are various moments of transient noise – and added treble to fill out Uncle Noam’s voice to make him sound more natural. As is usual, I also went over the sound second by second, reducing or eliminating all the major audio flubs. I muted the opening and closing music to avoid hangups with copyright. There was a tiny bit missing from the master at about 1:05:00 in.
Thanks to Kyle Gorman @killabeegorman for the original upload:
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Chomsky, 1997, Language, Linguistics, Cognitive Revolution, History of Science, Chemistry, Ludwig Boltzmann, Henri Poincaré, Eric Kandel, displaced reference, bee communication, René Descartes, discrete infinity, Galileo Galilei, animal experimentation, Jim Higginbotham, Aristotle, David Hume, Generative Grammar, Otto Jespersen, Juan Huarte,
As always, The Noam Chomsky Audio and Video Conservatory remains a strictly not-for-profit archive to make available to anyone all of Noam Chomsky’s public events in the highest possible quality. Visit the original Noam Chomsky Audio Conservatory on Archive.org to download any of the programs on this channel in high quality audio and video formats.
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