Media known to the society

We are attempting to build a list of films and video material of interest to CCS members. At this stage we are keen to simply identify material and make a note of where it is held.

If you can add to this list of provide new material please contact the society secretary, Kevin Murrell at kevin(at)ps8(dot)co(dot)uk

Title Producer Machines featured Notes Format Copy kept by
           
           
Introduction to Punched Card Accounting - 1942 Powers Samas 40 Col punched card machines Very clear coverage of punching, verifying, sorting and tabulating. Include mechanical cross multiplying punch. DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
The Power-Samas Factory - 1924 Powers Samas Punched card manufacture Silent DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Look at Life - Figure it Out Rank Breezy look at the state of computing in the mid 1960s Birkbeck MAC, IBM 7090, Ferranti Perseus, Elliott 803 DVD / 16mm Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
The EDSAC Film - 1951   EDSAC Introduction by M V Wilkes added in 1976 DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Leo - The Automatic Office - 1957   LEO II and LEO III   DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
What exactly is a program? ICT ICL 1900 series   DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
What is a computer? NCC and ICL ICT 1900 series   DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Computer Conquest ICL ICT 1900 series Lots of footage from Putney and Bracknell 16mm / DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
ICT 1500 ICT ICT 1500 series Sales film for new machine (aka RCA 301) 16mm / DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Your obedient servant ICL 1900, System 4, 2903 Presented by V. Bowden 16mm / DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
ICL 2900 series ICL 2903 2980 Sales fim for new range - must be early in intruction of 2900 16mm / DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Dialog for Three ICL   16mm / DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Look at Life: Figure it out Rank IBM 7090, Elliott 803, National 405   DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
ICT at BEE (Olympia) Oct 1962 ICT ICT 1500, 1301, 1101, 558 & various unit record kit Setting up the stand, visitors and contracts being signed DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Computing for Profit Ferranti Ltd Ferranti Pegasus   DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
ICT 1301 ICT ICT 1301   DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
The Ferranti Pegasus Computer - 1955   Ferranti Pegasus   DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Computer Achievements   EMIDEC 1100 etc BEA Freight forwarding and Boots stock control DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
On Guard - IBM Corp IBM US SAGE Air Defence system Cold war terror at its best - IBM saves the US from the commie threat! DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
The Computer and the Mind of Man - 1965 National Educational Television, US Various IBM Primarily IBM machines - fairly doom laden warning of electronic brains ahead. DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
This is ICL ICL ICL 1900, System 4 20m promo - series of stills 16mm Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Seeing is Believing Prudential Powers 20m visit to Prudential on High Holborn - some punched card kit DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
What is a computer? Video Arts / ICL 20m animated introduction to computing - comic use of possibly System 25 in a monestry 16mm / DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Interview with ICL's Chris Wilson ICL 20m head to head interview with then ICL MD 16mm Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
The Future Came Yesterday ICL Unknown Unknown 16mm / DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
Time To Think - 1958 ICT BTM 1202   DVD Roger Johnson
Computer Architecture SHOTLIST PCs circa 1997 Quite a good basic introduction to computers VHS/DVD Roger Johnson
Supermarket Information Systems SHOTLIST (None) Stock control at Sainsbury - series of interviews with shop managers VHS/DVD Roger Johnson
Electronic Data Processing IAM LEO 1, Elliott 405, Ferranti Pegasus A series of film strips produced by the Institute of Office Management by it's EDP Committee. Includes sound track DVD Kevin Murrell / TNMOC
           
           

 

On-Line Material (Copies of original material only)
Remington-Rand Present the Univac Remington Rand UNIVAC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fURxbdIZs Online You Tube
Man and Computer IBM   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUCZJWo9MZo&feature=related Online You Tube
IBM RAMAC IBM