It's the 1940s at Berkeley

As we have noted from time to time, there is a lot of Hollywood buzz about the new "Oppenheimer" movie now in production that will open in summer 2023. The latest is an item in SFGATE noting that a bunch of 1940s cars have appeared on the UC-Berkeley campus.*

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the UC-Berkeley physics professor who headed research on the Manhattan Project during World War II and is essentially the reason why UC still plays a management role at Los Alamos and the other two Dept. of Energy funded labs. 

I should point out that there was filming of the movie at UCLA before the cameras got to Berkeley:

https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-big-bang-theory.html and
https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/02/oppenheimer-at-ucla.html

As we have also noted, yours truly has been teaching a course which has students watching a 7-part 1980 BBC series on Oppenheimer which I strongly recommend. It's better than a lot of what is now available on TV and streaming and is free on YouTube. Links are below:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZH-zPTi3Q8
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwqgchnCqcE
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_84Aj04ZDQ
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpItnlMf9xM
Part 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_LV6cgA6vo
Part 6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRuJ-gCbAA
Part 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjc4kRYIxKA

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*https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/Christopher-Nolan-Oppenheimer-films-in-Berkeley-17190377.php. More photos with old cars at Berkeley can be found at this link.

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PS: If you are wondering why we have not finished our analysis of last week's Regents meetings, it's because it takes time to work through the recordings. We have so far gotten through Tuesday and Wednesday morning and posted about those sessions. We will eventually get to Wednesday afternoon and Thursday. This is a busy week for yours truly. (We have completed the mechanical process of downloading and uploading the recordings for preservation on archive.org.)