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Dream Machine: The Visual Computer (1986) [N/A]

Release Date:
January 1, 1986

Original Title:
Dream Machine: The Visual Computer

Genres:
Animation | Documentary

Production Companies:
One Pass Productions

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 58

An Anthology of Computer Graphics

Overview from TheMovieDB

Computer graphics, computer imaging, computer animation, digital image synthesis, digital scene simulation. These terms refer to one of the most profound developments in the history of human communication: the computer as a visual instrument that combines the objectivity of the photograph, the subjectivity of the painting and the gravity-free motion of hand-drawn animation. It is possible to view the entire career not only of the visual arts but of symbolic discourse in general as leading to this Promethean instrument of representation. Its aesthetic and philosophical implications are staggering, and they are ultimately of profound social and political consequence as well.

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Production

Director:
Geoffrey de Valois
Steve Michaelson

Editor:
Kitty Rea
Geoffrey de Valois

Executive Producer:
Steve Michaelson

Music:
Doug McKechnie
John Lewis

Producer:
Geoffrey de Valois
Donna Cohen

Writer:
Geoffrey de Valois
Donna Cohen

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