[D66] Docu: The Incredible Machine (1968)

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Incredible Machine, The

by
     Murphy (Owen) Productions


Publication date
     1968

Digitizing sponsor
     American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T), Bell Telephone Laboratories

Informs viewer of the experimental advances in audiovisual 
communications techniques Bell Telephone Laboratories' researchers are 
experimenting with: computer graphics, synthesized speech, computer-made 
movies and music, and designing prototypical devices.

20:27:20:29 CU man working on 1980s computer screen tracing line with 
digital pen over graph on screen, sheet music above graph, audio track 
jumbled notes corresponding to music written on computer screen.

20:27:39:28 man holds pen to digital draught table tracing lines that 
appear on black computer screen in green.

20:27:44:21 CU typewriter typing random letters on page, camera pan out 
to man who says “nice”, computer in robotic voice repeats over and over 
again word “nice”; CU black computer screen producing line in steps 
corresponding to intonation of computer’s pronunciation of word “nice.”

20:28:02:27 Two design engineers working on Graphic-1 computer; CU 
disembodied engineer’s hand presses pen to round scope touch-screen, 
drawing points on screen; men draw circuits directly on cathode ray tube 
screen; computer screen flashes “Data Incomplete On Amplifier.”

20:30:22:03 CU red tinted shot of disembodied finger presses button 
labeled “Execute;” CU two rows of blinking yellow lights; flashing graph 
on computer screen.

20:30:34:23 CU disembodied hands, on holding red pencil, the other strip 
of film; man with large moustache looks at strip of film and asks man at 
chalkboard holding piece of chalk questions; men are discussing idea for 
early digital movie.

20:31:37:17 Great footage from early Beflicks (Bell Laboratories Flicks) 
digital movie.

20:31:51:09 Man gives projectionist reels for Beflicks movie; VS man 
loads film reel in projector, focuses lens; CU disembodied hand punches 
buttons, each only momentarily in focus as it is punched, fingers press 
rewind then play button; CU film on projector begins to wind. Excerpted 
footage from Beflicks films, graphic in first frame has text which reads 
“The language speaks of pictures as mosaic;” great footage from 1980s 
digital movie, abstract moving images and letters, text “Man and…His 
world; Terre des Hommes; El Hombre Y Su Mundo; Der Mensch und Seine 
Welt” in abstract moving patters, highly pixilated material.

20:33:28:22 CU filmmaker with moustache talks about his dreams of making 
digital movies; great sound bites “I’ll be able to sit some place, maybe 
in a railroad station and write a movie, or maybe even pick up a 
telephone eventually and write a movie.”

20:33:25:07 Simple graphic of rotating sphere with suitcase-like object 
in its orbit, clock in top right corner of frame.

20:34:50:14 Man and woman seated behind project at table, man presses 
button on table turning off the lights, then turns on the movie 
projector; great footage of op-art film with man perceptual effects.

20:35:37:04 CU black and white page filled with small strange 
combination of simple symbols including: swastika, car, building, 
American flag, star of David, cross, cat, mask, peace symbol, television 
set, airplane; camera pans out to show small symbols transform into 
picture of two flying birds.

20:36:06:21 Great shot sifting through sheets of punched cards producing 
electronic music, row of flashing buttons on bottom of machine; CU man 
using pen to write directly on cathode ray tube monitor to program 
music; standard music notation on top of screen and geometric shaped 
graphed in center of screen; man does demonstration for another man on 
1980s electronic music computer, computer plays music and sings with 
robotic voice “Daisy Daisy give me your answer true, I’m half crazy all 
for the love of you..”

20:37:33:24 CU spinning film reel; CU digital produced graph of sound 
wave of sound on audio track; great shot two men wearing black framed 
glasses sitting behind reels of film.

20:38:44:27 Great shot of plaster model of head in profile with open 
mouth, camera pan around model which is split in two and looks into 
exposed internal portion of model of human head; CU two spinning red 
reels of film; audio track robot voice speaks Shakespeare quote “To be 
or not to be, that is the question…”; CU rows of blinking “Op Code” 
lights; CU disembodied hand writes with chalk on blackboard various 
consonant letters of alphabet; woman brings man writing on blackboard 
cup of coffee; man writes on blackboard in chalk “I like my coffee 
black” and underlines word “black”, CU disembodied woman’s hand types on 
typewriter; woman flips switch on control board of switches, audio track 
monotone robot voice says line “I like my coffee black.”

20:41:06:05 CU man looks at film on reel.
Credits

Written and Directed by Paul Cohen.

Addeddate
     2012-06-28 05:04:13

Color
     color

Identifier
     0767_Incredible_Machine_The_20_26_47_00

Sound
     sound

Year
     1968