Bell Laboratories Movies

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.

Produced by programming in the BEFLIX language, run on an IBM 7094 computer, output via a Stromberg Carlson 4020 microfilm printer, describing the author’s BEFLIX language for raster-scan (bitmap) graphic output.

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 'dance') seemingly at random on a 3D stage.

A computer sculpture combining the "...random scattering of lines about specified, but never drawn, trend lines." A 24 second b&w 16mm loop after Richard Lippold's sculpture "Orpheus and Apollo" of 1962. Likely from part of a series on patterns.

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-trace a scene in a reasonable amount of time. His film, The Compleat Angler is one of the most mimicked pieces of CGI work ever, as every student that...

This film was a specific project to define how a particular type of satellite would move through space.