Alistair Cooke's 'map of America' bookshelf system
Alistair Cooke's 'map of America' bookshelf system: Alistair Cooke explaining how he visually filed his books about America to aid a secretary who was not geographically-minded. Books about various parts of America were filed by placing them as if the bookshelves were a map of America - books on California to the bottom left, New Hampshire and Maine top right and so. This means that in this shot, Cooke is pointing towards North Dakota or Minnesota and, so his narration went, high heels were needed to reach books on Canada.
Still taken from the DVD version of the BBC's 1973 TV series Alistair Cooke's America.
Alistair Cooke's 'map of America' bookshelf system
Alistair Cooke's 'map of America' bookshelf system: Alistair Cooke explaining how he visually filed his books about America to aid a secretary who was not geographically-minded. Books about various parts of America were filed by placing them as if the bookshelves were a map of America - books on California to the bottom left, New Hampshire and Maine top right and so. This means that in this shot, Cooke is pointing towards North Dakota or Minnesota and, so his narration went, high heels were needed to reach books on Canada.
Still taken from the DVD version of the BBC's 1973 TV series Alistair Cooke's America.