Frank Herbert speaking at UCLA 4/17/1985

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Frank Herbert speaking at UCLA 4/17/1985
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From the archives of the UCLA Department of Communication. Digitized 2015. This video is a re-mastering of the first campus speech we digitized and uploaded from our collection.
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@UCLACommStudies 5 років тому

Note: This is a complete digitization of the entire tape recording provided to us by the UCLA Campus Events Commission. The tape is from 1985 and our department cannot explain the cuts in portions of the tape. We only digitized what we were given.

@TheMrSlyxx 3 роки тому

I read Dune in the 80's when I was 13. I will tell you this if you're watching this before the (2nd version) movie. Read the book first. Don't cheat yourself out of the rich experience of seeing it all in your mind first.

@ambulocetusnatans 6 років тому

"It doesn't make a damn bit of difference whether it's a fascist bureaucracy, a so-called capitalist or oligarchic bureaucracy, or a communist or socialist bureaucracy. To the people looking up at the bottom of it, they're identical."

@sierranevadatrail 7 років тому

I remember going to this. They had a video camera taping the speech. There was a decent sized crowd, but not huge, and he signed a lot of books afterwards. I read that he was suffering from intestinal cancer at the time, and was receiving some type of hypothermic treatment for it. He was really nice to everyone afterwards, and let me take a photo of him outside, although sadly it did not come out.

@g.b.s.5587

Like the dude confronting him on the gay thing, really the biggest blight on his record is how he treated his son.

@MrKadvaga

Very interesting the dialogue between Frank and the gay student

@MH-ln6pv 3 роки тому

Herbert on when a bureaucracy becomes an aristocracy "They pass the power along to their children...We don't have that in the states yet". Fast forward to today.

@natalieshark 7 років тому

I love how his jokes are clever, but not quite landing.

@3dward220 2 роки тому

huge performance

@johnwcoletta 3 роки тому

I just want to know what the results of the egg drop are. And is Fernando Bravo enjoying his sweet new HP calculator?

@BlueGrenadeTom 2 роки тому

Whooo - didn’t come out of the homosexual question too well - I think he was trying to be a bit too "light hearted" about it and chose his words appallingly. A shame it didn’t go on for longer.

@henseltbrumbleburg3752 2 роки тому

"If I were born in my Grandfarthers time I would've made my Grandfarthers mistakes, I just think it's nonsense, stupidity to make my Grandfarthers mistakes today..." Frank Herbert 1985

@Juhziz 2 роки тому

6:57

@thatguynicky1979 4 роки тому

"I think there is a bad idea in the world, about power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I think it's rather that absolute power attracts the corruptible." - Frank Herbert (34 min mark)

@gterrymed 7 років тому

there are terrible cuts in this recording.

@peteb2323 7 років тому

I read Dune and Dune Messiah back in 1985-86 and was able to catch the Dune movie in the theater. It's been a long time and glad I finally got to hear Frank talk about the book and hear his intellect. Thanks for the memory!

@anthonyn4603 2 роки тому

Frank Herbert was a genius and was going strong, even at this point and time but his health wasn't. In the interview, he pauses every time and makes these soft coughs and this is an indication of pulmonary embolism which was slowly killing him at this point. He would die a year later.