The Information machine: or creative man and the data...

United States, 1958

Film
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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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Credits

co-producers/directors

Charles Eames

Ray Eames

production company

IBM

Duration

00:10:00:00

Production places
United States
Production dates
1958

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

321728

Language

English

Subject categories

Animation

Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Information storage and retrieval systems

History → History

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Computers

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Computers - History

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Information storage and retrieval systems

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

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