The Great Match

Year Published: 1971

Creator: King Screen/BFA

Description: King Screen/BFA, 1971. "Little sci fi parable of a computer being selected to govern a human world." Home transfer from 16mm original. Print in care of Niagara Artists Centre. --  "The Great Match" presents a fictional competition between two advanced computers, EDC and CDC, designed to solve human problems. The event is broadcasted globally, allowing billions to witness the match, which consists of four categories: mathematics, poetry, music, and free exercises. After intense competition, EDC and CDC showcase their capabilities, with EDC leading initially, but the final category will determine the ultimate winner. Keywords sci-fi, competition, computers, EDC, CDC, mathematics, poetry, music, technology, television

Complete Record: King Screen/BFA, 1971. "Little sci fi parable of a computer being selected to govern a human world." Home transfer from 16mm original. Print in care of Niagara Artists Centre. -- "The Great Match" presents a fictional competition between two advanced computers, EDC and CDC, designed to solve human problems. The event is broadcasted globally, allowing billions to witness the match, which consists of four categories: mathematics, poetry, music, and free exercises. After intense competition, EDC and CDC showcase their capabilities, with EDC leading initially, but the final category will determine the ultimate winner.

Keywords

sci-fi, competition, computers, EDC, CDC, mathematics, poetry, music, technology, television

Transcription

[Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen tonight intervision the worldwide television network brings you the most important event in the history of man the great match our satellites will make it possible for 6 billion people around the world to witness this exciting competition wherever you are rome paris new york at home or work we know your attention will be riveted to the television screen tonight in front of a live audience our respected judges will select the universal governing computer after three years of intense competition the field has been narrowed down to just two computers one from the computer and detecting company call it cdc for short and one from the electrical digital company will call him edc we will finally have an unemotional brain that will solve man's problems the match consists of four categories mathematics poetry music and free exercises all results are final in case of a tie there will be sudden death overtime everything seems to be ready now we are awaiting the start of the mathematics section and there it goes [Music] and the results edc 59071 cdc 59069 in the second event poetry we will use photographs and motion pictures to show the computers those things which have inspired the great poets to the heights of the written word edc is writing first [Music] now cdc is off the mark they're both finished and in just a moment we will have the tabulation [Music] three for edc and two for cdc that might be a mistake no those are the results edc picks up another point and leads by three in our third category the computers will compose an original piece of music let's sit back and listen [Music] the judges are tabulating the score 926 for edc and 929 for cdc it's all tied up we're down to the wire so the final category free exercises will decide the winner the computers will be interlocked and decide the category amongst themselves we won't know exactly what it is until they begin what a finish to a great match [Music] foreign [Music] uh [Music] you


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