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Early Artificial Intelligence Research : Caught on Film

Numbered Film Index
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There are 95 films currently in the database.

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01-robot MIT Robotics Research : 1975??
The first half of the film is a lecture by Marvin Minsky describing the basic id...
02-robot Collage of AI Research Clips : 1972??
Film 2 includes many clips of different things. Among them are a computer displ...
03-gas Mike Speciner's Gas Simulation : 1972??
This is a simulation of a gas as its molecules move and interact with each other...
04-cubechess More MIT AI Lab Research : 1969 Sept.
The fourth film begins with a robot arm manipulating some toy blocks on a table....
05-life Roger Banks' Cellular Automata : 1970
Siimulations similar to the Game of Life on a computer screen. The first segmen...
06-robot Stanford AI Lab Arm : 1959
The sixth film shows a robot arm using touch/force feedback that is able to do s...
07-arm MIT AI Lab Arms : 1966
This film shows a fairly conventional robot arm being manipulated by a joystick....
08-turtle Teaching with LOGO : 1969
This film depicts kids playing with a Logo Turtle (both an actual one, similar t...
09-robot Butterfinger : 1967??
“Butterfinger” from the Stanford AI Project describes a robot that integrates a ...
10-robot Channel 5 Special : 1968-1969?
Seymor Papert trying to show how kids can use computers to learn. Various shots...
11-robot Teaching a Robot via Tactile Feedback : 1959??
This film shows a researcher experimenting with a robot with an arm whose edge i...
12-robot Visual Guidance of a Mobile Robot : 1956/1976
An early robot with lights and a light sensor mounted on it uses this feedback s...
13-cubechess Robot Arm and Chess Game : 1968
The first part of this film shows the robotic AMF arm doing cube-stacking work. ...
14-cube GOSPER AMF Blocks : 1968??
This film is of the robotic AMF arm; a researcher puts a cube in its hand, and i...
15-robot Ernst Arm : 1955?
A view of Ernst arm, and video of the first computer with a CPU....
16-solar Solar Simulation : 1972??
This film is of an early solar simulation. ...
17-turtle LOGO Turtle : 1960??
This film shows a computer-generated surface and the functioning large LOGO turt...
18-bongo Boy on Bongo Board : 1967??
A slow-motion film of a young boy riding a bongo board. ...
19-cube Early Robot Cube Stacking : 1968??
This film shows the AMF arm manipulating blocks. ...
20-cube Early Robot Cube Stacking : 1966
Another clip of the AMF arm stacking blocks. It operates blindly, with no compu...
21-bongo Man on Bongo Board : 1967??
This film shows a man balancing (quite adeptly) on a bongo board. ...
22-turtle LOGO Turtle Drawing : 1974???
This film shows the large LOGO turtle drawing things. ...
23-worm Gosper "Groan Worm" : 1966
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24-worm Pornis, Gas, Worm, Ocean samples : 1974??
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25-logo Logo Original : 1975?
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26-robot Winograd-Demonstration SHRDLU : 1971??
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27-solar Solar Corona : 1970?
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28-logo Logo (T.C.T.) : 1969
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29-solar Solar original scraps & leader : 1970?
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30-gas Assembling a Radial Bearing Print #5 : 1973??
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31-robot Solar work print : 1972??
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38-robot Math Lab : 1966
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33-cube Scraps from Gosper's "Steiner's Porism" : 1967??
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37-robot Oculometer Game : 1971??
This film shows a game using the eye tracker as an imput devide in order to play...
35-screen IFIP dupe Animation : 1968
Math...
32-mathlab Fire Works : 1970 Nov
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40-logo ETL Robot : unk
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36-wireforks Early Robot : 1977
This video shows early work done by Draper Lab. It demonstrates how their early...
39-worm Wireforks print : 1970 Nov
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44-logo Logo Display: Man : unk
Stick figure man appearing and disappearing at different places and different si...
41-radial Assembling A Radial Bearing : 1975
"A robot from the MIT CSAIL laboratory 1975 programmed to assemble a radial bear...
42-radial Butterfinger : 1975
"Description of the Fall of 1967,Stanford Artificial intelligence Butterfinger p...
47-robot Bennett Minsky Arm : 1965
A view of the different elements in the artificial intelligence lab used to crea...
48-worm Logo TTY : 1975??
Logo computer language: printing a logo program. ...
49-worm Small tour through the MIT AI lab during 1971 : 1970 Sept
"Snippets of different areas of the MIT lab in 1971. Clips of written programs ...
50-logo Waltz Program : 1972??
A description of advances made by Waltz on computer description of shapes and en...
52-robot Versatran : 1967
"A promotional video describing Versatran Machine. The video describes the machi...
34-robot Bubbles : 1971?
Various animated Bubble arrangements on a computer screen. ...
45-robot Display Turtle : 1954/1974
"A randomly positioned point plotting display, that is running on a Supernova ma...
55-worm Random Shots Out of Window : 1966
A view of the MIT campus from a window. ...
56-life "RWG Robot stack, sort" : 1969 Sept
"Calibration of the RWG robot, and the RWG Robot picking up various items." ...
57-screen SHR DLU print : 1972??
"A computer simulation of ""The Box World"". " ...
58-logo Waltz finger : 1966
"An animated look at the ""Waltz Finger""." ...
59-bongo Bongo : 1967?
A kid on a Bongo. ...
53-robot Pornis Scraps : 1963
"A look at a small scanning program, various scans running on a computer, and pe...
61-arm MIT AI Lab Life Flick : 1968??
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43-arm MIT AI Lab Mathematics programming : 1966
Screenshots of a Mathematics program from the MIT lab. ...
64-robot #2 Day 1 Logo Arrow display : 1967??
Film of a joystick controlled arrow being moved in different directions. ...
65-worm 9 Turn Off Rug/Boy on Bongo BD : 1967?
Solomon on a bongo. ...
66-worm Bongo Board by Hand : 1967??
A bongo board is manipulated by hand as part of a study on balance. ...
67-life Fun With Minsky-Bennett Arm : 1966
The film begins with an unidentified segment that looks like either a version of...
68-gas Logo Arrow Display : unk
A look at the eye track display. ...
69-gas Chess Game & Players : 1969??
"A look at a chess game running on a 340, and various important researchers stud...
70-gas Joel Moses at Terminal : 1966
Joel Moses working on some mathematical programming. ...
71-robot Logo Arrow Display Two : unk
A video of a arrow display from the Supernova computer. ...
60-bongo Krakauer's CN Tour + random people : 1958/1978
"A look at a raster screen, and scans of different people." ...
74-bongo Winograd's & Banks's cellular automata c : 1967??
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75-logo Specinor's "Gas" program : 1972??
"The ""Gas program running on a computer." ...
76-robot Gas WINZB scraps : unk
"The ""Gas Program Running on a computer."...
77-life Gas WINZA Gas scraps : unk
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46-robot Stanford A.I. Butterfinger : 1967??
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80-cube Gas 4 scraps (& losing tacky and chess) : unk
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81-mathlab Gas 5 scraps "pretty good" : unk
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82-screen Bongo - SP on Bongo Board : 1969
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83-logo Logo Turtle Pen : 1970
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84-robot Vision Line Finding : unk
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85-screen "Life" Mike Beeler : 1970
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86-bongo Asst Robot Shots print : 1969 Sept
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87-cube Random Logo shots : 1969
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88-eye Robot (NO 340) CBS : 1969
A look at an optical ARM from 1969. It shows the Optical Arm doing various tasks...
89-logo Math Lab : 1966
"A look at various computing machines, and people working on early math lab type...
90-logo Math Lab : 1966
"Carl Lingerman working on his math program, and various screenshots of the prog...
91-logo Logo (T.C.T.) Day 1 : unk
"A collage of different programs. First, a line spinning about its center creat...
92-turtle Optical Arm : unk
"The AMF arm callibrating itself, and arranging some blocks." ...
63-chess Math Lab Printers : 1966
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94-solar Boy Bongo Boarding : 1967?
"A boy does a jump flip on the bongo board, and then falls." ...
95-turtle Robotic arm : 1969 Sept
A robotic arm working with cubes. A computer animation of what the robotic arm ...
96-worm """The Eye of the Robot""" : unk
"Description of computer vision research at MIT, and various machine learning al...
93-cube Logo Turtle Pen 2 : 1966
This film is very similar to "Logo Turtle Pen," but it's a bit longer; it shows ...
51-cube Solar Corona : 1970??
This film shows something that looks like a solar corona simulation progressing ...
72-gas Big LOGO Turtle : unk
This films shows a lot of clips of the big LOGO turtle. It also includes a view...
73-gas JLJ original Jay Jaroslav's Intensity Co : unk
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54-bongo #2 (Worm) day 2 : unk
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79-logo A Brief Introduction to the Robots at ET : unk
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62-logo MIT Computer : unk
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78-cube Black :
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103-consort Consort :
This appears to be about a program that does balancing with the large frame and ...
104-mac :
This film contains clips of research that was going on at Project MAC when it wa...
105-museum :
This film contains a lot of shots of the TX-0 computer that used to reside in bu...
106-twinkle Twinkle :
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