The Computers Are Coming

Duration: 300 ft.

Year Published: 1983

Creator: CBS News Carousel Films Inc

Complete Record: Opening titles on animated computer terminal; changes into an electronic wave pattern; banks of buttons, lights, computers; [quick cuts] lab technicians; manufacturing line; schools, home, hospital usage; Dan Rather interview; computerized robot arm; paraplegic man uses computer; early Apple computer; early computer animated dancer; computers running manufacturing; kids stepping out of high school; high school graduates in cap and gown. Computer animation: bird; talking heads; programming; computer animated paper plane flies through apartment. health diagnostic application; graphs; large banks of computers; space footage; Ronald Reagan speech; military. Scene from 2001. CU of baby’s face. computers and medicine, man breaths through tube hooked to computer. Dan Rather talks into computer, it repeats his speech.