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First feature to contain CGI?

posted 18 years ago by Askur
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Westworld is credited as the first feature film in history to contain CGI, but I know computers were made in this movie too.
On trivia about Westworld, it is written "The first use of computer digitized images as part of a feature film (not merely monitor graphics) was the Gunslinger's point of view in Westworld."

I havn't seen this movie myself, but was the computer graphics in this movie "merely monitor graphics", or was it something more advanced?

[–] HrundiVB 12 years ago

I don't believe they were CG but rather "monitor graphics" combined with clever analog fx and lighting. It's explained in the DVD material.
HOWEVER! It's possibly the first movie that shows a touch screen operated by stylus! How many people had ~heard of~ anything like that in 1971?

[–] Satan2016 (23351) 6 years ago

Early 1960s light pen & CRT: http://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/introduction/

[–] Otter (24464) 5 years ago

Uh, they had handheld computerized thingies with styluses on the original "Star Trek", so this movie can't take credit for that one.