This short 1982 educational film produced by Dimension Films shortly before the company folded in 1985 The film gives viewers a look at the different ways computers are used in society specifically it discusses computer use for creative machine control models and files The film opens with a shot of a computer in a large room Children sit around an Apple II computer and monitor A man uses a computer to generate designs Dr Derek Sampson looks at a computer printout of patient names 01 40 He speaks with a young woman waiting for a kidney transplant A woman carries a kidney in a box into a hospital Dr Sampson speaks to the camera about using computers to expedite the process of identifying kidney recipient matches A woman sketches out a flow chart for a computer program to identify patients in need of kidney transplants to match tissue and blood types 03 42 Dr Sampson enters the relevant information about a donated kidney into the computer Groceries are scanned at a grocery store 05 26 The film shows the magnetic tapes in an IBM computer running the bar code processing program The 62TM drive shown was a magnetic drive capable of storing 10MB of data Traffic announcers read traffic alerts over the air at Metro Traffic Control reading updated alerts on computer monitors 06 10 running Instatrak II software and issuing a SIGALERT for traffic problems Jerry Curtis checks on GM Pontiac Camaros being manufactured on an assembly line 07 29 He shows the camera a controller used to control a welding robot on the line He demonstrates how to program a welding spot line He then reviews the program on the computer monitor The film shows the computer system s electric eye 09 32 Dr James Blinn sits at a computer at NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and models a robotic arm for a space vehicle 09 52 The film then shows numbers from another model used to save the El Segundo Blue butterfly The butterfly eats from a buckwheat flower next to an oil refinery plant Dr Richard Arnold observes the buckwheat plants Dr Arnold uses a computer in his office to make a mathematical model of ideal numbers of buckwheat plants for the butterflies 12 33 Students use an Apple II computer modeling program at FOLLK Friends of LISP Logo Kids to understand how fish populations work 13 58 Other students use the program Logo on an Apple II to create graphic art A man installs a new circuit board in a computer 15 47 Two students discuss making titles for the film 17 10 The girls try running the title they then debug their coding after the timing of the title doesn t run correctly A woman inserts a floppy disc in an office to prepare a report 18 14 on a Xerox 8010 Star -- this was the first computer to ship with a mouse An artist designs a work on a computer using a simple paintbrush program The film then shows shots of the various people featured in the film working on flowcharts for their computer programs in their respective areas concluding the film We encourage viewers to add comments and especially to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment See something interesting Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example 01 00 12 00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive one of the largest historic military transportation and aviation stock footage collections in the USA Entirely film backed this material is available for licensing in 24p HD 2k and 4k For more information visit a http 3A 2F 2Fwww PeriscopeFilm com a

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