Incredible Machine

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1968

Creator: AT&T

Complete Record: Art of computer graphics as it applies to sound(Bell telephone laboratories), shown here in its infancy. Fantastic pixelated electronic images and great shots of people working around sound equipment. CU of typewriter. Shots of sixties technological equipment. Early computer graphics. Electronic light pen puts together chemical compound structures on a circular screen. Pen grabs images and moves them around. CU of hand looking at audio tape. MCU of man with pompadour at blackboard writing down programming language. MS of two men putting audio tape on machine. CU of tape being wound, buttons pushed. The taped information is converted into images on a pixelated screen. Shots electronically lit words breaking up like a kaleidoscope. Lots of different lights, colorful patterns. One pattern converted into impressionist art. More kaleidoscope shots of patterns on screen. CU of many computer generated black and white symbols, pull out and it is a picture of two birds flying, or a telephone. More shots of audio equipment. Men work around audio equipment lit by a red light. computerized sound waves roll across the screen. Great shot, CU of model of face, split down middle with both sides displaying a cross section of the human head. Camera pulls in around side of face and into the split showing the cross section. MS of man writing at black board, woman brings him coffee. She then goes and loads tape. The two sit side by side, playing with sound equipment together.