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Record information – Brief Machines Like Men
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):447319Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE / INSTITUT CANADIEN DU FILMAccession:1975-0206Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Release date:1962Production company:British Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:producer, Philip Daly; script, Gordon Rattray Taylor; narrator, Raymond BaxterDescription:The odd and wonderful accomplishments of computer technology. Electronic brains are shown accomplishing various tasks: helping in study of the Bible, navigating an aircraft, testing a wind tunnel model, composing and writing music, identifying criminals for the Chicago Police Dept., sorting out model railway cars, reorganizing a farm. The narrator and his guests demonstrate a computer's power of logic by ordering a computer to solve a complex equation. Sequence on cathode screen display. An electronic mouse learns to negotiate a maze; a machine plays checkers with a man and wins. Sequence too on computers reading print and handwriting, answering the spoken word, imitating hand-writing, assisting a girl in drawing the floor plan of a house etc... Final sequence on 3 talking and singing computers.Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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