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Michael Crichton's Forgotten 1980s Sci-Fi Film Beat Tron to a CG Milestone
Original: Michael Crichton's Forgotten '80s Sci-Fi Movie Beat Tron To This Computer Graphics Milestone
Michael Crichton's 1981 directorial effort Looker is being credited with reaching a computer graphics milestone before Disney's Tron, the film usually remembered as the pioneer of CGI in cinema. Looker, starring Albert Finney, featured an early fully computer-generated human figure, a technically daring step at the time. The film flopped and has since faded from mainstream memory, making its place in digital effects history largely overlooked.
Why now: Film history discussions are revisiting which movie truly pioneered computer graphics in cinema.
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