Early Graphics Show How Far Special Effects Have Come

John Whitney was one of the earliest pioneers of computing machine artwork , most unforgettably known for his work on the curtain raising sequence of Hitchcock ’s Vertigo . But even in this educational video for IBM in 1968 , the length that information processing system computer graphic has come is startlingly exculpated .

Whitney ’s Experiments in Motion Graphics was first published in 1968 , 10 years after Vertigo first came out . It was produced as part of his fellowship with IBM , a first at the time . Whitney was no stranger to work out with computers , but access to IBM ’s film editing - bound system yield him the hazard to go after his dreaming of integrate audio - optical move graphics .

For a modern audience , the talk of the town is instructional , and not just as a good foundation of how Windows XP ’s euphony visualiser come to be — it ’s also a compact reminder of how far our filmmakers have number , and how hard forward-looking movies trust on techniques excogitate a few decades ago .