Bell Laboratories Movies

2024
The Color of the Sun
The Color of the Sun
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Haunted by the same strange yellow entity that took her parents, a girl survives by using her wit and new-found ability to escape through color.
1964
A Computer Technique for the Production of Animated Movies
A Computer Technique for the Production of Animated Movies
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Produced by programming in the BEFLIX language, run on an IBM 7094 computer, output via a Stromberg Carlson 4020 microfilm printer, describing the aut...
1978
The Compleat Angler
The Compleat Angler
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After receiving his Ph.D. from NCSU in 1978, Turner Whitted left for Bell Labs and proceeded to shake the CGI world with an algorithm that could ray-t...
1963
Simulation of a Two-Gyro Gravity-Gradient Attitude Control System
Simulation of a Two-Gyro Gravity-Gradient Attitude Control System
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This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space.
1964
3-D Film
3-D Film
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A computer sculpture combining the "...random scattering of lines about specified, but never drawn, trend lines." A 24 second b&w 16mm loop after Rich...
1965
A Computer-Generated Ballet
A Computer-Generated Ballet
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Created at Bell Labs in 1965, this short film likely contains the first computer-generated animation of human figures in motion. The figures move (or...

The Color of the Sun