Philosophy of Computing (sound)

Description: Educational film explaining digital and analog computers to a lay audience, expressing the state of computing technology in the mid-1950s with a focus on mainframe machines. Introducing computing as an outgrowth of mathematical calculation together with information systems and data processing systems, the film goes on to explain the operational principles of both digital and analog machines and roles they play in technological environments including banking, finance, aviation and aerospace, and music. Contributing to the culture of masculinization of computer programming, all programmers depicted in the film are male even though programming at the time had a substantial history and significant proportion of women in the field.

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Subjects: 1950s,Technology,Computers,Science

Tags: history; history of technology; mathematics; calculus; blackboards; scientific equations; abacus; key pad; desk calculator; computation; punch cards; data processing; switching system; magnetic memory; mainframe computer; vacuum tube computer; analog computers; digital computers; rotary phones; telephones; Univac; computers; computer memory; machine languages; circuit boards; SPS; symbolic programming system; Fortran; formula translator; computer programming; computer programmer; left handed; lefty; coding; coder; pre-compilation; error correction; computer programs; differential equation; processors; analog computers; digital computers; volt meters; oscilloscope; banking; data; financial transactions; missile control; navigation; computer music; electronic music; synthesizers; human factors; Rutherford model; atoms; electrons; typewriter credits; narration with southern accent; music; logic routines; control panels; jumper wires; oscilloscopes; the end title with atom illustration

Film Sponsor:

Creator: "University of Louisville, Speed Scientific School"

Credits: Speed Scientific School presents /
Produced in conjunction with the Computing Lab, Speed Scientific School / Photographed by Lee Jones / Research by Harold Underwood / Written by J Lamont Wilson / Technical Assistance by Alfred T Chen, Paul R Schrodt / Directed by Charles Lipschutz


Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: circa 1955

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Kentucky; Louisville, Kentucky

Genre/Form: educational

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: optical, variable area

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 347