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Brooks Hall conference stage, San Francisco, 9 December 1968: dark curtains, shallow riser, steel-framed console table, suspended projection surface, and four audience backs interrupting the foreground. Engelbart’s right palm and curled fingers contact the mouse; his left fingertips remain pressed to all five chord-set keys. Mouse, chord set, and keyboard rest flush on the console table; their cables join the rear bundle and descend behind the table. Engelbart’s shoes, all four chair legs, and all four table legs meet the stage riser. The projected session lies entirely within the projection screen; the screen’s upper edge is fixed continuously to the stage frame. Each audience silhouette remains below the stage edge, with seated bodies supported by auditorium chairs. The projection spans about 6.1 m, roughly 3.6 times the height of a 1.7 m standing adult. It is 1968-12-09: Dark single-breasted suit, white shirt, narrow tie; foreground attendees in varied late-1960s business dress.; Painted steel, matte laminate, wood mouse shell, rubber cables, dark stage cloth, projection fabric.; NLS stage console, wired keyboard, three-button mouse, five-key chord set, live monochrome split-screen projection.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "Risky live engineering working in public. 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