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ATLAS.04.1001  Alvey's recommendations for a programme for advanced information technology  (1983)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/1983 IT film on Alvey programme.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/1983 IT film on Alvey programme.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/1983 IT film on Alvey programme.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1002  Aural pattern recognition  (1974)
Computer Graphics Section, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/aural.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/aural.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/aural.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1003  A brief history of computer graphics in New York  (2015)
New York Historical Society, directed by Lew Baldwin
 • A short film at the New York Historical Society exhibition 'Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York' from 13 November 2015 until 17 April 2016
 • Some stills from the Chilton site were used

 • https://vimeo.com/140131489/84674ea666
ATLAS.04.1004  Caesar

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/caesarsys.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/caesarsys.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/caesarsys.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1005  Camper

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/camperex.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/camperex.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/camperex.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1005.1  Camper (aeroplane animation sequence)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/camperaero.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/camperaero.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/camperaero.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1005.2  Camper (Pride segment)
 • 'Pride' segment from 'The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins' by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/PlaneAnimation.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/PlaneAnimation.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/PlaneAnimation.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1006  Conic sections
Harper and Row
 • Harry M Schey and Judah L Schwartz, MIT
 • Computer animation: Joseph Kaye and Co. Inc

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/conic.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/conic.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/conic.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1007  Coyote and the lizard

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK-4DgDx7lk
ATLAS.04.1008  Coyote and skunk

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwe8aemojvw&index=7&list=PLIIKSvQRzOorKAwhDhufIpcps_xK6H8ZC
ATLAS.04.1009  Coyote tales

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_06nbVtzzk
ATLAS.04.1010  Difference

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/oumaths.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/oumaths.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/oumaths.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1011  Ferranti Atlas: Britain's first supercomputer
Computing Heritage/Google
 • A short film produced to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Britain's first supercomputer, the Ferranti Atlas
 • Includes shots of various Ferranti, Elliott and IBM computers and their everyday applications. The Atlas sequence only lasts a few seconds.

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TRfy70DqD8
ATLAS.04.1012  Finite elements  (1975)
Atlas Computer Laboratory in association with the Royal College of Art; Peter Haddingham, Swift Film Productions
 • Animation and music by the ANTICS computer system
 • On an ICL 1906A computer and SD4020 microfilm recorder
 • Designed by Alan Kitching, produced by Jean Crow
 • With the Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Nottingham; Dept of Civil Engineering, Southampton

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/Finite_Elements_F1027_PAL.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/Finite_Elements_F1027_PAL.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/Finite_Elements_F1027_PAL.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1012.1  Finite elements (excerpt)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/feexcerpt.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/feexcerpt.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/feexcerpt.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1013  Force mass and motion

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/forcemm.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/forcemm.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/forcemm.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1013.1  Force mass and motion (excerpt)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/fmmexcpt.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/fmmexcpt.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/fmmexcpt.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1014  Galaxy

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/galaxy.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/galaxy.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/galaxy.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1015  Genesys
 • Made by Ron Baecker

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYIPKLxoTcQ
ATLAS.04.1016  Humourous phases of funny faces  (1906)
The Vitagraph Company of America

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/humorousfaces.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/humorousfaces.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/humorousfaces.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1017  Hunger/La Faim
National Film Board of Canada

 • https://vimeo.com/38238456
 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwU3UARE6yc
ATLAS.04.1018  ICF Final Closure  (1990)
 • Peter Davey speaking at the closure of the ICF (Interactive Computing Facility)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/ICF Closure Final.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/ICF Closure Final.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/ICF Closure Final.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1019  Le paysagiste/Mindscape

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHjkCBeZZNc
ATLAS.04.1020  Laser separation of uranium isotopes

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/laser.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/laser.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/laser.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1021  The Lighthill Controversy  (1973)
BBC
 • Introduced by Prof Sir George Porter
 • Taking part: Profs Sir James Lighthill, Richard Gregory, John McCarthy, Donald Michie

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/1973-BBC-Lighthill-Controversy.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/1973-BBC-Lighthill-Controversy.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/1973-BBC-Lighthill-Controversy.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1022  Linear hash

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/lnhash.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/lnhash.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/lnhash.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1023  Look at Life: Figure it Out
J Arthur Rank
 • A film all about the new advanced technology known as computers

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuP8ba96KYQ
ATLAS.04.1024  Los Alamos explosion

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/losalamosex.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/losalamosex.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/losalamosex.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1025  Mark of man

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/markofman.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/markofman.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/markofman.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1026  Memories of the Atlas Computer Laboratory

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/kalah.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/kalah.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/kalah.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1027  Perq demo (full version)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/PERQ.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/PERQ.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/PERQ.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1028  Perq demo (Bob Hopgood segment)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/perq1.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/perq1.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/perq1.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1029  Perq demo (Rob Witty segment)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/perq2.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/perq2.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/perq2.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1030  Pigs

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/pigs.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/pigs.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/pigs.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1031  Quartetus

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/quartetus.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/quartetus.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/quartetus.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1032  Scanimate movie (John Lennon sequence)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/scanimatemovie6.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/scanimatemovie6.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/scanimatemovie6.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1033  Scanimate  (1981)

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/scanimatemovie7.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/scanimatemovie7.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/scanimatemovie7.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1034  Sorting out sorting

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJwEwA5gOkM
ATLAS.04.1035  Space filling curves

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e8QJBkCwvo
ATLAS.04.1036  Tomorrow's world: Computer animation (work-in-progress)
BBC

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/tomorrows.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/tomorrows.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/tomorrows.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1037  Tomorrow's world: Computer animation (final version)
BBC
 • Includes a sequence in the Atlas Operations Room and the SC4020 in operation

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/Tomorrows World Bob-Stan.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/Tomorrows World Bob-Stan.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/Tomorrows World Bob-Stan.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1038  Uniform speed

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/movcharge.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/movcharge.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/movcharge.webmsd.webm
ATLAS.04.1039  Flexipede
 • The first UK computer-generated animated film, made by Tony Pritchett
 • Filmed using the Benson-Lehner plotter and microfilm recorder at Culham Laboratory, Oxfordshire

 • https://archive.org/details/TheFlexipede
ATLAS.04.1040  Non-linear evolution equations
SRC Interactive Computing Facility
 • A film by Chris Eilbeck at Heriot-Watt University; includes mention of the Atlas Computing Laboratory and a shot of the FR80

 • /gallery/videos/wmvs/Nonlinear_Evolution_Equations.wmv
ATLAS.04.1041  Notes on a triangle
National Film Board of Canada
 • Made by Rene Jodoin with music by Maurice Blackburn

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ztfo5S5oL4
ATLAS.04.1042  Computer techniques for the production of animated movies  (1964)
Bell Labs
 • Made by Ken Knowlton
 • Gives the basics on the process, from Ken Knowlton's BEFLIX programming language for a raster-scan (bitmap) output, to the hardware details (IBM 7094 mainframe, Stromberg-Carlson 4020 microfilm printer

 • http://techchannel.att.com/play-video.cfm/2012/9/10/AT&T-Archives-Computer-Technique-Production-Animated-Movies
ATLAS.04.1043  Permutations  (1966)
Produced under a research grant from IBM
 • Made by John Whitney

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB31mD4NmA
ATLAS.04.1044  Metadata
National Film Board of Canada
 • Made by Peter Foldes

 • https://www.nfb.ca/film/metadata_en/
ATLAS.04.1045  The Story of G
 • Computer-animated cartoon made by Alan Kitching in 1979 for Swedish TV, using Antics 2D
 • The storyboard was written by a group from the local art school

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75UvZkFSVQ
ATLAS.04.1046  Worth a thousand words  (1967)
 • Film made by the Computing and Applied Mathematics Group at the UKAEA Culham Laboratory
 • The use of computers to produce graphical output using their system called GHOST
 • Includes sequences with mag tapes, and creating punched cards

 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaHqzQtaVmM
ATLAS.04.1047  Remote computing facilities
 • A film made by the SRC about computing facilities at Rutherford Laboratory
 • Includes IBM 360/195 in operation, magnetic tapes, line printers, remote terminals, magnet design
 • Probably pre-1970

 • /gallery/videos/mp4s/remote_computing_facilities_trowbridge.mp4
 • /gallery/videos/oggs/remote_computing_facilities_trowbridge.ogg
 • /gallery/videos/webms/remote_computing_facilities_trowbridge.webmhd.webm
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