From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hp-pcd!keith
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: TSOANM movie comments - (nf)
Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.694
Posted: Tue Feb 22 12:04:17 1983
Received: Thu Feb 24 02:17:06 1983

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hp-pcd!keith    Feb 22 08:24:00 1983

     Can you imagine a Hollywood movie in which the computer
     actually looks like a modern computer? 

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It is interesting to see how Hollywood treats the computer in the movies.

A computer isn't interesting enough just to look at because it doesn't look
like it is doing anything.  So they treat us to views of card sorters,
tape drives, and crts that make noises like ASR33 Teletypes.

In the future, as more mechanical moving parts get eliminated, we will
probably get to see pictures of magnetic bubbles rolling over little 
chevrons (with the appropriate sound effects).  

It's easy for me to be critical, but the folks making the movies have a
difficult challenge.  Just how do you portray a computer doing 'work' in
a ten second clip?

					Keith M. Taylor
					Corvallis, Oregon
					hp-pcd!keith