Goble is referred to as a computer, and that was her job description, but what she did went beyond that. Computers did the calculations requested of them by engineers or scientists who did the problem solving. She went beyond just doing calculations and took on the analysis that precedes the calculations. By the late 1950s they were starting to be replaced by digital computers, and by the late 1960s they were pretty much extinct. But until then they were a part of every major scientific institution in the world. In the early 1880s Edward Pickering became director of the Harvard College Observatory. He was not happy with the quality of the data analysis at the observatory and ended up firing the men responsible for that job and hired his maid Willamina Fleming. Eventually she become head of a large staff of observatory computers, who much later ended up being known as Pickering's harem. Fleming and a few of the others made discoveries of their own and were eventually recognized for their scientific accomplishment. They were the leaders of women being accepted as astronomers in their own right starting in the early 20th century. But I digress.

Most of the movie is made up drama, and a huge reversal of who did what. In real life, the computers simply plugged in numbers to equations that the scientist and engineers came up with. That's why they didn't usually put their name on reports.

That's not tried the first was the Soviets with Yuri Gagarin

Giving credit so many years later begs the question why wasn’t she acknowledged sooner.

I don’t understand… Kevin Costner… is not a cowboy… or a baseball player… it just doesn’t add up.

They could have just asked Gagarin 🤷‍♂️

Another movie I recommend is “something the lord made”, Alan Rickman, and Mose Def. Rickman has been a fav of mine since “Die Hard”, Mose Def since the above movie!

And yet we can’t watch it unless paying for it?

Women, much less black women have been relegated to the shadows, while men got the acknowledgement. It has changed, but not enough.

I loved those IBM Selectric Type-wrighters were the best

Isn't funny actually HILARIOUS that whites don't know the hole in their face from the hole in their 🍑 get upset that WE ✊🏾 can out do them in EVERYTHING even when they push US ✊🏾 to the back WE ✊🏾 still OUTSHINE them things 😂😂😂😂😂😂 yasssss that's what you call REAL MELANATED ✊🏾 WOMEN ♀️ MAGIC

Anyone who sees this movie Hidden Figures gets a lot smarter,thank you

R. I. P brightbills real family. :'( (anyways, ROZ is a pretty good mother ngl.)

Jim Parsons was a a hole in this movie.

Why weren't her accomplishments acknowledged right after she help Glenn orbit the moon? Why did it take 53 years to acknowledge what this woman did? The truth shall come to the light! No matter how hard or how long anyone tries to withhold something, God will reveal it!

It took a women to figure out a man job ! Jim was playing Sheldon ! Making sure he gets the credit

Sheldons character was always kinda a prick. So this part he's playing in this movie make sense. He plays a good jerk !😡

I want to see that movie please can anyone share iy❤❤❤❤

I want to see the movie complet

Woman was instrumental in the USA's crowning achievement of mankind and only got credit for it nine years ago. God sometimes I hate us.

Math is so refreshing when you know it 😅😅😅😅😅

When the space craft splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, I was watching it on my black and white TV. I saw the Navy Aircraft Carrier send out the helicopter to pick up the space craft. At the time, I questioned myself how did the Navy know where to be at that time? I finally got my answer. Thank you Mrs. Kathern Gobble.

The US governement is cheating the people for a long, long, long time made them to belive they are the most lovly country in the world!

But they left out the reason that they got the space it's because of the former Nazi Germany

Why the F them write the white g*y name on the report..

Sad, but as usual wasps have always taken credit for everything.

Was that 53 years later, wankers 😂

Tell me again. those on the right, how things were better back then. This clearly shows otherwise. And even today, we have a renewed effort by the right to eliminate DEI teachings and training. Believe me, your day of recogning is coming.

Obama .what an endorsment that is.to her genius.

Jim Parson plays the same character that he did in big bang theory but without the canned laughter. Annoying, spiteful and disrespectful. Obviously he’s been tested and there’s nothing wrong with him 😂 history will not look kindly at his character.

I knew a number of math teachers in my youth. Keven Costner’s look was spot on for all of them. Crew cut, the style of glasses, the skinny black ties, white shirt and suit coat that as author Jean Shepard said, it looked as if it was made of wet and dry sandpaper. The visual effects were also spot on. It looked as if they stepped out of 1962.

Obama gave KG the Presidential Medal of Freedom - Trump gave it to a racist!!

I know it’s an important movie but I was hoping Jim acted like Sheldon for a short period of time. Lol

So who here remembers typing with the little ball? I sure do. Little bastard was about one-half second behind my fingers so that took some getting used to.

There was a lot of times throughout history when women did the work and man got the credit. In WW11, Hoover to the credit for a woman decoder, we won some of the battles because of her work and Hoover walked away with all the credit.

This is the best and funny and how did the name brighbill

53 years later. Damn shame

I don't know why white people think they are so superior. And I am white

My grandfather is also a Paul Stafford…..although I know Jim Parson’s role did not depict a real person, it is still hard for me to watch at times, because this was nothing like the Paul Stafford I knew.

Why did you fade out Katherine Gobles face?

And we have a group now that want to turn back the clock and put people not like them back to that time & worse ! 😡

Omg wait until chit chat talks

Ive been calling them the Green Bay Fudge Packers for years🤣🤣🤣

Sheldon before he was Sheldon.

If anyone is wondering, the goose named "Brightbill" is from the book "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown. This video mentions Roz, the robot. Brightbill well, was named after his bright bill.

It is infuriating that I was NEVER taught in school all the amazing contributions women made throughout the ages. I take it back, there were three: Madame Curie, Florence Nightingale, and Pochantis. It is an outrage.

Remember you have a whole political party controlling many states that won’t teach real history as they white-wash it and revise history. They say Civil was wasn’t about slavery, US has never been racist and promote a sex offender for president

Thank you President. They better be changing the damn history books to damn it. I HATE racism.

The real Katherine said she was treated like everyone else at NASA, the racist part was fiction.

Thank you