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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969) Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) The Questor Tapes (1974) Demon Seed (1977) Blade Runner (1982) Tron (1982) WarGames (1983) Brainstorm (1983) 2010 (1984) HAL 9000; SAL 9000; Hide and Seek (1984, TV movie) Electric Dreams (1984) The Terminator (1984) Terminator; Skynet; D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) Flight of the ...
The New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab debuted a trailer at SIGGRAPH for their CGI project. This would have been the first feature-length CGI film, but it was never completed. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: ILM computer graphics division develops "Genesis Effect", the first use of a fractal-generated landscape in a film. [26]
The year 1946 in film involved some significant events, including the release of the decade's highest-grossing film, The Best Years of Our Lives, which won seven Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.)
Title Director Cast Genre Notes The Bachelor's Daughters: Andrew L. Stone: Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Ann Dvorak: Comedy: United Artists: Bad Bascomb: S. Sylvan Simon: Wallace Beery, Margaret O'Brien, Marjorie Main
The Tabernacle, artificial intelligence controlling The Vortexes in the movie Zardoz (1974) Zero, the computer which holds the sum total of human knowledge, in the movie Rollerball (1975) Computer, Citadel's central computer and "Sandman" computer, that sends Logan on a mission outside of the city in the film Logan's Run (1976)
1989: Quantum Computer Services is renamed America Online. Voice actor Elwood Edwards is hired to record its now-iconic greeting "You've Got Mail" on a cassette tape in his living room, ...
John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
It's difficult to imagine life today without computers, but the personal computer was barely a reality just 33 years ago. On August 12th, 1981, IBM introduced their first PC model, also known as ...