Artifact Details

Title

Incredible Machine

Catalog Number

102651784

Type

Moving Image

Description

Film is an overview of a variety of work in computer graphics at Bell Laboratories, both scientific and artistic, during the period 1964-1968.

This film contains technical discussions of the process of loading and running program tapes. It compares pixellation to the Pointillism method of drawing/painting, and touches on voice and auditory nerve simulation, as well as methods for programming vocal characteristics to mimic computer speech.. Graphic 1 applied to CAD, contains footage of forms being read by a scanner.

Date

1968

Publisher

Owen Murphy Productions

Identifying Numbers

Deprecated CHM identification number VT 294
Deprecated CHM identification number VT 84.86

Duration

00:14:10

Dimensions

overall: 9 in

Format

16mm film

Credit

Gift of Ken Knowlton

Lot Number

84.86

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