The Computer Revolution

Year Published: 1967

Creator: Bailey Film Associates (BFA)

Complete Record: Surveys present uses and future potential of computer in industry, printing, air traffic control, hospital administration, space travel, law enforcement, engineering, government and education. Moving shot - big printing machine. room full of typists. animation - counting on fingers, lighted circles (demonstrating mathematical computation) MS airplane in the air, landing. CU runway from plane’s POV. man at typewriter. exterior of hospital. Interior of hospital - nurses, CU medical equipment, doctors looking at x-rays. CU typewriter. typing data. doctor mixing solution in a cup, WS rocket blast off, men in control room, MS - man looks at monitor, animation (don’t know what it’s for). astronaut in rocket pushing buttons. exterior shot of rocket on launch pad, takes off, CU machines, satellites in space, cars driving down road. CU of cop in car, POV windshield - car in front. cop talks on CB radio, CU radio receiver back at police station, WS man at desk, punching data into machine, cop pulls car over to shoulder, man looks at diagram of house on screen, uses touch pen to take him to new screen, MWS two men talking in front of computer, diagrams on screen, uses touch pen to draw on screen. man looks at another screen - diagram. uses console to move images, computer chess - chess board and pieces on screen. man moves real chess pieces as he plays chess with the computer, CU chess pieces, hands on keyboard, data printouts, zoom in on trophy won by chess player, MLS of hands typing on typewriters, CU reel-to-reel machine, lights blinking on console, big computers, reels of tape on shelves (moving shot), MLS talking man’s head, (Gerald Piel) interview with another man, exterior city sky scrapers, interior - man pushes buttons on console, zoom in on telephones on shelf, man on step ladder pointing to giant wall map, talks to another man who types in data, CU data typed on to paper. exterior - school building. interior - classroom teacher at chalkboard, boy talks to girl at typewriter, MLS African American teacher lectures at chalkboard, WS class raising hands, CU children answering questions, teacher writes on chalkboard, girl at typewriter types what teachers writes on board, VS of students faces.