- Title: F-A3202
- Summary: COMPUTERS: CHALLANGING MAN'S SUPREMACY: WRITER-AUTHOR ARTHUR C. CLARKE & SEVERAL COMPUTER EXPERTS OPTIMISTICALLY APPRAISE FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS & USES OF COMPUTERS. CLARKE CONJECTURES THAT BY THE YEAR 2000 THE COMPUTER WILL HAVE SURPASSED THE CAPACITY OF THE HUMAN MIND IN SOME WAYS, BUT THAT IT WILL FREE MAN OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TYPES OF CONSCIOUSNESS. FUTURISTIC VIEW. EARLY COMPUTERS, TECHNOLOGY. COMPUTER GRAPHIC ANIMATION
- Description:00:23:56 - ARTHUR C. CLARKE, CREATOR OF HAL THE COMPUTER DISCUSSES THE FUTURE MAN AND THE MACHINE 00:24:33 - CU FINGERS TYPING ON EARLY COMPUTER. CU EARLY COMPUTER PRINT-OUT. 00:24:54 - CU INSIDE EARLY 1970s ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTER. TRANSISTORS. RESISTERS. CONNECTORS. MILES OF WIRE. LASER MEMORY SYSTEMS. LASER TECHNOLOGY. IBM PARTS. 00:25:32 - COMPUTER OPERATORS TYPING ON KEYBOARDS CIRCA 1971. CU NUMBERS TYPED ON SCREEN. 00:25:41 - MONTAGE BUSINESSES USING COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, 1971. HOTEL. RESTAURANT. SHOP. 00:26:02 - DOLLY THROUGH OPEN PLAN OFFICE, MANY COMPUTER OPERATORS, ALL FEMALE, AT DESKS 00:26:15 - NASA LAUNCH 00:26:20 - MIT MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EDWIN FREKIN ?SP TALKS ABOUT COMPUTERS AND THE FUTURE. HOUSEHOLD ROBOTS IN THE FUTURE. CUTS TO DRAWINGS SHOWING HOUSEHOLD ROBOT LIGHTING WOMAN'S CIGAR, VACUUMING, PERFORMING HOUSEHOLD CHORES. ROBOT AS A GUARD BARKS LIKE A DOG 00:28:38 - ROBOT "SHAKY". TELEVISION PICTURE ROBOT POV. BUILT BY THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SECTION OF THE STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA ROBOT'S TASK IS TO PUSH A BOX OFF A PLATFORM. PUSHES A RACK INTO PLACE, THEN PUSHES THE BOX ONTO THE PLATFORM. 00:29:56 - ARTHUR C. CLARKE TALKS ABOUT MACHINES AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. WILL MACHINES BECOME AS INTELLIGENT AS WE ARE? 00:30:30 - AUTOMATIC FACTORY COMPUTERIZED ROBOT PERFORMS TASKS FASTER AND WITH GREATER PRECISION 00:30:57 - ARTHUR C. CLARKE TALKS ABOUT MAN'S DESCRIPTION AND PREDICTION OF THE FUTURE 00:31:26 - HEAVY URBAN TRAFFIC 00:31:41 - AIRPLANE AIR CANADA COMES IN FOR A LANDING, TAXIS. BAGGAGE UNLOADED. 00:32:13 - AIRPORT COMPUTERIZED RESERVATION SYSTEM. PASSENGERS LINED UP AT RESERVATION. COMPUTERIZED ARRIVALS, DEPARTURES MONITORS. 00:32:56 - CU 1970s COMPUTER SCREEN WITH AIRLINE ARRIVALS 00:33:02 - DOLLY THROUGH AIRLINE COMPUTER INSTALLATION. WALL OF COMPUTER. PRINT OUT. PRINTER. 00:33:23 - CU COMPUTER PUNCH CARDS, MACHINE PROCESSING PUNCH CARDS. 00:33:41 - HISTORICAL RECREATION. 1801 FRENCH WEAVER USING COMPUTERIZED LOOM. CU PUNCH CARDS. INFORMATION CONVEYED BY HOLES PUNCHED INTO CARDS. WEAVER WEAVING PATTERN ON LOOM. 00:34:27 - CU PRESSING BUTTONS, PLAYING TIC-TAC-TOE WITH A COMPUTER. ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTER. HIPPIES TRY TO BEAT COMPUTER 00:35:11 - CU COMPUTER PRINT OUT 00:35:15 - CU COMPUTER PARTS. 00:35:29 - CU PRESSING COMPUTER BUTTONS. 00:35:30 - WORKERS IN FILM STORAGE VAULT TAKING FILM CANS FROM STORAGE SHELF 00:35:32 - MONTAGE COMPUTER OPERATORS PERFORMING TASKS 00:35:40 - CROWDED CITY STREETS. 1971 00:35:53 - PRINTING PRESS. NEW YORK TIMES NEWSPAPER 00:36:04 - CU EARLY 1970s COMPUTER. MAN TYPING ON KEYBOARD CU COMPUTER PRINTOUT 00:36:09 - NEW YORK TIMES NEWSPAPERS COMING OFF THE PRINTING PRESS. PRINTER PICKS ONE UP. LOOKS AT IT. CU NEW YORK TIMES NEWSPAPER 00:36:31 - MONTAGE COMPUTERS AT WORK IN VARIOUS BUSINESSES. CU COMPUTER CARD. CU USING PUSH BUTTON PHONE. BANK TELLERS. OFFICE WORKER FILES PAPERS IN FILE CABINET. 00:37:11 - PROFESSOR FREEDKIN ?SP AT HOME WITH COMPUTER DO IT YOURSELF HOME ENTERTAINMENT. SET UP SWITCHES TO A PATTERN, TURN IT ON, IT PLAYS A TUNE. BILLIONS OF PATTERNS YOU CAN SET UP. TURNS MACHINE ON, PLAYS A TUNE. 1970s TECHNOLOGY 00:38:54 - GIRL SITS IN AWE OF 1970s COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY 00:39:37 - DRAWING SHOWING MACHINE THAT COMPOSES MUSIC 00:40:11 - 1970s COMPUTER GRAPHICS, 00:40:26 - COMPUTER WHICH CREATED THE STARGATE CORRIDOR IN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY" DEVELOPED BY JOHN WHITNEY. WHITNEY TALKS ABOUT BUILDING HIS OWN COMPUTER. COMPUTER ANIMATION. 00:41:37 - WHITNEY CREATES COMPUTER ANIMATION ON MACHINE THAT CAN MANIPULATE IN WAYS THAT COULD NEVER BE DONE BY HAND. 00:42:21 - 1970s COMPUTER GRAPHICS, ANIMATION. 00:43:11 - PROFESSOR FREEDKIN TALKS ABOUT MAN STARTING TO UNDERSTAND COMPUTER SCIENCE
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1971
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: F-A3202