Oddball Films: Man and the Machine - The Future of Technology ...

Oddball Films presents Man and the Machine - The Future of Technology from the Past, a program of vintage films about computers, robots and other omnipresent technological marvels. ?In Microworld (1976) an overly dramatic William Shatner explores the oddly psychedelic world of microprocessors. ?Ray Bradbury's The Veldt (1970s) features a nuclear family in a computerized home that leads to deadly results. ?Isaac Asimov and Walter Cronkite investigate The Weird World of Robots (1968). Go behind the scenes of turning Yul Brenner into a killer cyborg in The Westworld Production Short (1973). Presaging the current internet matchmaking trend, Comput-Her Baby is a wacky art film spoofing the notion of computer-assisted love in 1967. IBM commissioned Ray and Charles Eames to create the short cartoon The Information Machine (1958) chronicling man's relation to data processing. ?Plus, the early-computer animation Both Sides Now (1972) utilizing the Joni Mitchell tune with eye-popping effects. ?With more surprises, trailers and commercials in store!
Date:?Friday, May 31st,?2013 at 8:00pm Venue:?Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco

Featuring:

Microworld?(Color, 1976)?

Host?William Shatner?explores the oddly psychedelic world of silica and microprocessors.?This?AT&T-produced film is chock full of outdated notions of the future and obsolete technology.

A creepy and chillingly adapted short story by Ray Bradbury. Parents George and Lydia live with their two children Peter and Wendy in "The Happylife Home," a fully automatic residence with machines that do everything for them. ?The two children are especially taken with the nursery, a room with virtual reality that will recreate anything their brains desire. ?The parents begin to worry as the pair spend more and more time in the nursery, which seems to be permanently fixed on African grasslands featuring a pair of lions gruesomely gnawing on bones in the distance. ?When George and Lydia decide to move out to the country to get away from their computerized domicile, the children and lions have other ideas.

Westworld Production Short?(Color, 1973)

The Information Machine (Color, 1958)

Ray and Charles Eames directed this cartoon about the progress of man's ability to process information, culminating in the computer, which at that point was little more than a giant, complicated data-processor. ?Produced for IBM.

The Weird World of Robots (1968) Famed sci-fi author and futurist Isaac Asimov and Walter Cronkite investigate the strange and?

surreal world of  robotics in the 1960s. Asimov advocates a race of "worker robots" to do the?

blue collar work for planet earth. Watch a robotic dog (Old Yaller), human amplifiers, a centaur and robotic machines designed to stimulate human responses to medical students. Later the?"grave" questions are posed: "There is no question that man can live with the robot. The?

question is, can the robot live with man."

Source: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com/2013/05/man-and-machine-future-of-technology.html

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