Baede-Kar system in Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles
Contributed by Jonas Short on Nov 19th, 2022. Artwork published in
circa 1972
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Reyner Banham inserts the Baede-Kar tape into his car’s audio system
Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles is a documentary produced by the BBC in 1972. The viewer follows Reyner Banham, professor of architecture at University College London, as he tours the “four ecologies” of Los Angeles – Surfurbia (beach), Foothills (basin), The Plains of Id (foothills), and Autopia (freeways) – by automobile. [AHBE LAB]
Gemini Computer is used for the fictional tape-based “Baede-Kar” navigation/tour system (a play on the Baedecker travel guides) that helps to organize the narrative of the film .
