The 21st Century: The Computer

Duration: 800 ft.

Complete Record: The history and technical advancements of the computer, good speculation on the future of computer technology Process control of computers. Printers. Machinery shots. Spinning mechanical wheel. Gathering news, reporters. Women typing in room. Women at type writers. Paper tape, women using it. Rapid reading of paper tape. Cartoon of human hands. Cartoon of two flashing circles yellow and red. Small dots, bigger dots spinning, lots of circles, add, subtract and divide symbols, man with dots in his head. Lots of white dots explain binary code. Cartoon explaining this. Airplane Pan America landing. Runway of airport. New York center in Long Island, men working on flight plans. Explanation of how flights are processed by computers, control room. Men with headsets in control room. Flights being processed by computers. Transmitter showing flight information. Computer helping airline pilot with information. Hospital setting, nurses with hats walking. Computer system HIS, hospital information system. Shows CU of computer knobs and switches. Nurses reading the computer. Doctors looking at x-rays. Typing. Pharmacy setting, mixing drugs. Rocket launch. Space program center, disks spinning. Computer simulated space, trajectories made of information. Cartoon of moon, earth and sun rotating in space. Rocket countdown and launch. Satellite in space. Cars on highway. Policeman in car, reading number plates and calling control center for computer analysis of it. Checking of records at police center. Policeman reading the information in his car and makes stolen car driver pull over. Graphic bridge on computer screen. General Motors research laboratory, engineers viewing different angle of cars on screen, viewing drawings to exact scale on screen. Engineers discussing car plans. Graphic systems used. Computers taught to talk, cartoon of face talking. Computer imitating human speech pattern, slowly. Vocal movements stored then computer speaks at normal speed. Chess board. Playing chess on computer. Computer’s trophy for winning chess tournament. Machines processing paper tapes. Disks spinning. Storage unit for disks. Gerard Peil editor of Scientist America magazine, talking about data and computer systems, public records and their relation to the law. IBM headquarters, lots of telephones, CU of telephones. Time sharing of computers. Cars on street. General Electronics, man on ladder in front of map. Man imputing data. Information being read off printer. Man typing. CU men concentrating on task. Junior high school, computer used to study geometry. Classroom and children talking. African American female teacher talking to students. Young African American boy speaking to teacher. Young girl with glasses talks. Teacher writes with chalk on blackboard. Children input data into computer, use it as a tool. CU of children’s faces in classroom. Girl with headband looks up at camera.