Made for the IBM pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair, it attempts to clearly place the electronic computer in the context of human development, suggesting that it is a logical extension of our desire to connect and relate things. Explains the nature of data processing, beginning with primitive man and ending with the advent of machine simulation. Drawings and animation by Dolores Cannata, music by Elmer Bernstein.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
321728
Language
English
Subject categories
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Information storage and retrieval systems
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Computers
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Computers - History
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Information storage and retrieval systems
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)