WPA Film Library Home About Us Contact Us Exhibits Login Sign up WPA Film Library Your source for stock footage. We provide answers. 1980s Computers Computer systems of the 1980s The World's Most Powerful Computer Clip#: Audio: Location: 429081_1_1 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1986 (Actual Year) Color 03:36:14 - 03:39:07 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 1005 N/A The use of the Cray 2 supercomputer, the fastest computer in the world, at ARC is detailed. The Cray 2 can perform 250 million calculations per second and has 10 times the memory of any other computer. Ames researchers are shown creating computer simulations of aircraft airflow, waterflow around a submarine, and fuel flow inside of the Space Shuttle's engines. The video also details the Cray 2's use in calculating airflow around the Shuttle and its external rockets during liftoff for the first time and in the development of the National Aero Space Plane. Download Expand Minimize Reel (1) Notes: Oak Forest Hospital and University of Chicago Hospital Clip#: Audio: Location: 311204_1_7 Yes Oak Forest and Chicago, IL Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1980 (Estimated Year) Color 10:17:31 - 10:21:29 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 10 N/A MS pharmaicist supervisor training worker on computer at administration desk (books, phones, computers on table) . Two African American women work at the computer together. CU supervisor, pulls out to 2-shot with trainee at keyboard. VS of the two women working together at the computer. Download Expand Minimize Reel (9) Notes: Oak Forest Hospital and University of Chicago Hospital Clip#: Audio: Location: 311204_1_8 Yes Oak Forest and Chicago, IL Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1980 (Estimated Year) Color 10:21:29 - 10:23:28 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 10 N/A CU, MS Asian male pharmicist talkes with co-worker. Tilt and pan activity around administration desk where pharmacists are wokring, entering information into computer, talking to each other. CU medications in boxes on shelves. Large piece of equipment is moved out of the way so cam gets full-view of hundreds of boxes of medications stacked on shelves. Zoom in to Cu of meds in boxes. CU computer screen, pull back to large old (80's mainframe type) computers along a wall. CU phone cord, pull back and pan to computers. VS computers, large printers mounted on tables. Download Expand Minimize Reel (9) Notes: Spaces - Computers and Video Games Clip#: Audio: Location: 490251_1_4 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1983 (Estimated Year) Color 04:02:28 - 04:02:37 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11267 SPAC 004 N/A Shots of old-school MAINFRAME COMPUTERS with hands sliding big circuit cards. Download Expand Minimize Reel (20) Notes: Spaces - Computers and Video Games Clip#: Audio: Location: 490251_1_6 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1983 (Estimated Year) Color 04:02:39 - 04:03:08 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11267 SPAC 004 N/A Various shots of buttons on a main frame computer. Microchip. Robotic arm doing welding. Shot of a robot arm solving a RUBIK'S CUBE. Two African American boys using a PC. Various computer read outs. Download Expand Minimize Reel (20) Notes: Spaces - Computers and Video Games Clip#: Audio: Location: 490251_1_17 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1983 (Actual Year) Color 04:08:16 - 04:09:04 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11267 SPAC 004 N/A Students working on computers in a university computer lab. Most of the students are African American. Download Expand Minimize Reel (20) Notes: Spaces - Computers and Robots Clip#: Audio: Location: 524961_1_3 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1983 (Actual Year) Color 04:20:11 - 04:23:45 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11267 SPAC 004 N/A Segment on ROBOTS in industry. Shots of ROBOT ARMS handling materials, twisting a RUBIK'S CUBE. Shots of ROBOTS carrying materials. Shots of ROBOT ARMS building CARS on ASSEMBLY LINE doing WELDING. Shots of automated production line, with human workers. Exterior of Digital Equipment Corporation plant. People inside the factory assemlbling computer parts. Various shots of whirling mainframe computers. Robotic cart moves boxes from a warehouse. Nancy Wallace, industrial engineer, talking to factory workers, working at her desk, etc. Various shots of workers in the factory. Robotic arms doing jobs that would be dangerous for humans, working at high tempertures, etc. Nancy says that automation is indicative of a closer relationship between management and workers and workers getting more involved with the company. Various shots of the workers in the factory. Download Expand Minimize Reel (6) Notes: Computer Screen Clip#: Audio: Location: 531106_1_4 Yes Unknown Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1988 (Actual Year) Color 01:16:42 - 01:18:29 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 1028 N/A Computer Screen. LIST PROGRAM DEMANDS Cursor blinking. Typing STATE IDENTIFICATION AUTHORIZATION NUMBER Cursor moves around screen. Download Expand Minimize Reel (10) Notes: Computer Screen Clip#: Audio: Location: 531106_1_5 Yes Unknown Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1988 (Actual Year) Color 01:18:29 - 01:18:46 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 1028 N/A Computer Screen. YOU HAVE ACCESS Download Expand Minimize Reel (10) Notes: TOWN MEETING: DEFEATING DRUGS Videotaped informational segments on issue of D... Clip#: Audio: Location: 535569_1_13 Yes Washington DC, United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1989 (Actual Year) Color 20:47:49 - 20:48:06 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11375 91-6404 N/A Lab technicians work in a urinalysis laboratory. Drug testing. Also using 1980s computers. Download Expand Minimize Reel (17) Notes: THE AFRICANS: New Gods Clip#: Audio: Location: 536926_1_3 Yes Africa Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1986 (Actual Year) Color 10:18:33 - 10:19:03 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 10251 61-3981 N/A CUs computer keyboard with Arabic and Latin characters, hands typing; ECU/CUs computer screen, Arabic characters and cursor rolling right to left; CU man working at computer. Download Expand Minimize Reel (2) Notes: THE AFRICANS: Global Africa Clip#: Audio: Location: 537458_1_1 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1986 (Actual Year) Color 10:48:54 - 10:49:34 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 10257 61-3990 N/A THE AFRICANS: Global Africa. Regards the cultural and experiential differences between Africa and the United States. Edited unmixed program originally shot on film. MSs of African American high school students in school computer lab. African-American male teacher working with students. Download Expand Minimize Reel (1) Notes: Capitol Journal - Political Ads Clip#: Audio: Location: 459923_1_26 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1986 (Actual Year) Color 01:08:03 - 01:08:26 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 10208 31-3112 N/A A campaign office where women employees review poll data on computers and talk to voters on the phone. Long line of desks with people on the phone. Call center. Download Expand Minimize Reel (28) Notes: Capitol Journal - Trade Clip#: Audio: Location: 459996_1_13 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1985 (Actual Year) Color 01:02:25 - 01:02:33 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 10205 31-3124 N/A Computer microchip fabrication (manufacture, assembly) Download Expand Minimize Reel (19) Notes: Spaces - Computers and Video Games Clip#: Audio: Location: 490251_1_21 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1983 (Actual Year) Color 04:10:04 - 04:10:35 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11267 SPAC 004 N/A Teenagers playing video games. Students working on computers in a university computer lab. Download Expand Minimize Reel (20) Notes: WATTENBERG AT LARGE: Medical Clip#: Audio: Location: 491553_1_12 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1981 (Actual Year) Color 01:09:13 - 01:09:55 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11436 WATT 005 N/A Doctors look at a computer model of brain activity with different colored areas for high and low concentration areas. This may be an early PET scan (Positron emission tomography). Download Expand Minimize Reel (15) Notes: Congress: We The People - Lobbying Congress Clip#: Audio: Location: 541277_1_4 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1984 (Estimated Year) Color 10:35:35 - 10:35:59 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11407 CWTP 117 N/A CU of computer screen pull out to office worker talking on phone. Pan across office. Different people talking on the phone in the office. Download Expand Minimize Reel (19) Notes: This Honorable Court: The United States Supreme Court Clip#: Audio: Location: 542400_1_3 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1988 (Estimated Year) Color 01:48:21 - 01:48:37 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11270 61-3876 N/A Justice Byron White in chambers, working at computer. CU of hands on keyboard. Download Expand Minimize Reel (4) Notes: This Honorable Court: The United States Supreme Court Clip#: Audio: Location: 542400_1_4 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1988 (Estimated Year) Color 01:48:37 - 01:49:07 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11270 61-3876 N/A Panning CU cables running to connection at back of large mainframe computer. Caucasian man loading old-school data reels of tape into computer, pan to woman working at computer terminal. CU computer screen, word processing program, text of an opinion. Download Expand Minimize Reel (4) Notes: Spaces-Making Audio and Music With Computers Clip#: Audio: Location: 542415_1_5 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1983 (Actual Year) Color 04:13:49 - 04:14:06 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11267 SPAC 004 N/A CU of fingers on a computer keyboard, pan up to green screened monitor. Download Expand Minimize Reel (13) Notes: Spaces-Making Audio and Music With Computers Clip#: Audio: Location: 542415_1_11 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1983 (Actual Year) Color 04:15:31 - 04:15:41 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11267 SPAC 004 N/A CU of text on a green computer screen, pan down to see CU of fingers typing on a computer keyboard. Download Expand Minimize Reel (13) Notes: Spaces-Making Audio and Music With Computers Clip#: Audio: Location: 542415_1_14 Yes United States Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1983 (Actual Year) Color 04:16:58 - 04:17:46 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11267 SPAC 004 N/A CU MCU magnetic tape rolling through machine. CU of green computer screen. MCU reel to reel recording machine spinning. CU pan equipment buttons reading Power , Load , On Line , Rewind , WRT EN , HI DEN . CU needles moving on mixing board. CU magnetic tape spooling from one reel to the other. CU fingers typing on computer keyboard, pan up to CU of green computer screen. Over-the-shoulder MCU man typing on computer with green screen monitor. Download Expand Minimize Reel (13) Notes: Tales Of Siberia: Grown in Siberia Clip#: Audio: Location: 542430_1_4 Yes Siberia, USSR Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1980 (Estimated Year) Color 01:10:05 - 01:10:23 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 626 PREMIERE 5589 N/A Scientist running tests and using computers to calculate. Download Expand Minimize Reel (3) Notes: NEW TOWNS-Local Newpaper Office Clip#: Audio: Location: 540620_1_3 Yes Greenbelt, Maryland Year Shot: Video: Timecode: 1987 (Actual Year) Color 12:48:33 - 12:48:59 Tape Master: Original Film: HD: 11278 NTOWNS-001 N/A CU female hands using computer keyboard. CU computer monitor with bulky 1980s text, pan out to MCU of woman using computer. Download Expand Minimize Reel (4) Notes: × Add Clip to Clip Bin Add To Clip Bin New Clip Bin Notes Create New Clip Bin Cancel Note for the Clip Bin Close Add to Clip Bin × Request Clip Screener Request a digital copy of this clip to screen. 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