Incredible Machine, The

Informs viewer of the experimental advances in audiovisual communications techniques Bell Telephone Laboratories' researchers are experimenting with: computer graphics, synthesized speech, computer-made movies and music, and designing prototypical devices. 20:27:20:29 CU man working on 1980s computer screen tracing line with digital pen over graph on screen, sheet music above graph, audio track jumbled notes corresponding to music written on computer screen. 20:27:39:28 man holds pen to digital draught table tracing lines that appear on black computer screen in green. 20:27:44:21 CU typewriter typing random letters on page, camera pan out to man who says “nice”, computer in robotic voice repeats over and over again word “nice”; CU black computer screen producing line in steps corresponding to intonation of computer’s pronunciation of word “nice.” 20:28:02:27 Two design engineers working on Graphic-1 computer; CU disembodied engineer’s hand presses pen to round scope touch-screen, drawing points on screen; men draw circuits directly on cathode ray tube screen; computer screen flashes “Data Incomplete On Amplifier.” 20:30:22:03 CU red tinted shot of disembodied finger presses button