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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]
ENIAC (/ ˈ ɛ n i æ k /; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) [1] [2] was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Other computers had some of these features, but ENIAC was the first to have them all.
Computer Chronicles (1983 - 2002) Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires (1996) Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998) Halt and Catch Fire (2014 - 2017) Commodore 64; Macintosh 128K; NeXT Computer; Silicon Valley (2014 - 2019) Valley of the Boom (2019) The IT Crowd (2006-2013)
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 ...
Disney's most controversial movie, 'Song of the South,' opened in theaters on this day in 1946. Ethan Alter. November 20, 2023 at 4:00 AM ... A vintage poster for Disney's Song of the South.
The 1st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 20 September to 5 October 1946.Twenty-one countries presented their films at the "First Cannes International Film Festival", which took place at the former Casino of Cannes.
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 ...
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, ...