I was recently made aware of a new documentary film, ‘Ropewalk‘, the Story of Rope.  According to the email about it (in the yahoogroups space-elevator email group) and the website itself, this is a story of rope, from early times all the way to possible future uses (including a Space Elevator).

The site has a trailer in which looks very interesting (if you’re into these kinds of things, like I am).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLhtAJsJ6Co[/youtube]

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You can buy the video from the website or you can rent it from Netflix.

As a ‘child of the 60’s’, I especially enjoyed the ‘Hemp for Victory’ portion of the trailer…