If any of your friends or family want an introduction to fracals, try <a href="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3034959314635185121" target="_blank">http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3034959314635185121</a>.  Its an hour long video with Arthur C. Clarke as narrator.  It covers (lightly) Mandelbrot's and Julia's discoveries, then advances such as Barnesley compression.  Its hardly complete or scholarly but it would save a lot of elementary explaination.  The videos of deep zooms are hypnotic.

The only problem with this video being posted to the Internet is that it is copyrighted.

Kayla Mittelman posted a message to the apophysis discussion list back on August 25th about a link on another site showing this video.  It was soon removed when it was brought to the site's owners attention (and to the actual copyright owners as well).

I seriously doubt that the person who uploaded this movie has the authority to make it universally available as a download from any site.  This is especially true since it is still being sold by the Films Media Group, Films for the Humanities & Sciences:

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