News Release (February 8, 1974) TESC to host the first International Computer Film Festival
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News Release (February 8, 1974) TESC to host the first International Computer Film Festival
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8 February 1974
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NEWS
The Ev~rgreen State College
Olympia, Washington
985D5
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 8, 1974
The first International Computer Film Festival will be held at The Evergreen State
College March 7, 8 and 9, and will feature many of the major computer films and filmmakers from throughout the United States.
Richard Speer, director of the festival, said the three-day event is free and open
to the public.
Afternoons will feature lectures and seminars by computer filmmakers,
and evenings will feature three-hour film showings, with each night devoted to a different
subfield of the medium.
March 7 films will be educational; March 8, artistic; and
March 9, technical/scientific.
Computer films, first developed in the late 1950's, are defined as "any film which
contains footage animated, generated or containing graphic material manipulated by a
computer," Speer says.
They are used in a variety of ways.
"Computer films serve educational purposes --- to communicate and illustrate technica1 concepts or to demonstrate behavior unobservable in the real world, like motion at
the speed of light or other invisible phenomena," Speer explains.
They are also used
extensively for research, calculation and illustration in the technical sciences and by
industry.
And,computer films are increasingly used as an art medium, with which Speer is quite
familiar.
He and Frankie Foster, an Evergreen student who is assisting with the festival,
won a. national film award for a five-minute artistic computer movie they made while
both were attending the college last year.
The two initiated the three-day festival to "increase public awareness about the
field of computer filmmaking and to dispel some of the myths surrounding computers in
general," Speer says.
"We also want to provide the first comprehensive forum for many of the computer films
made in the past 15 years, and to assemble and show the work of some of the major figures
