Clarke - the computer HAL 9000 is a principal protagonist. In filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - developed simultaneously as a screenplay and a novel by Kubrick and British author Arthur C. There was also the French new wave science fiction neo-noir film, Alphaville (1965), and the 1967 espionage thriller Billion Dollar Brain starring Michael Caine.Ĭomputers would continue appearing in films and television shows, but it wasn't until 1968 that a computer was given a starring role. The more memorable of these films include 1961's The Honeymoon Machine, in which Steve McQueen and fellow shipmates secretly employ a powerful naval computer to win big bucks at roulette.
This romcom starred Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn as co-workers who eventually realize their love for each other despite of Tracy's infatuation with his latest (and greatest) invention, the EMERAC computer.Īs the idea of powerful electronic brains spread throughout the world, computers soon played essential roles in numerous Hollywood plots.
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The first movie to actually feature a computer in a major role was Desk Set in 1957. These five-minute shorts contained reports of scientific advances including atomic power, radar, and computers. Beginning in the 1930s and throughout the 40s, Paramount Studios played newsreels from Popular Science magazine before their feature films.
Computers have been appearing on the silver screen for almost a century.
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