PeriscopeFilm | “ INFORMATION RETRIEVAL ” 1961 IBM BUSINESS COMPUTER PROMO MAINFRAME PUNCHCARD COMPUTERS SM10435 @PeriscopeFilm | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 20 hours ago.
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This 1961 animated and live action film by IBM discusses developments made in information retrieval over the past decades, using the example of a fictional company, Alamer International, to show the progress IBM has made and how its machines can be used to facilitate business operations. The film begins with instructions on how to focus the projector screen to ensure optimal visual and sound quality (0:24). “Information” text flashes over a green letter I in the background (1:05). Capital letter “I”s march out of a press onto a book (1:10) as narration emphasizes the amount of printed information available. A cartoon typewriter; leaflets on a bulletin board; a mimeograph (1:21). Title card: “Information Retrieval” (1:53). “Collection, Selection, Indexing, Abstracting, Dissemination, Storage, Retrieval, Transmission, Display” scroll up from the bottom in mauve text (2:00). Animation of Alamer International (2:20), an imaginary company faced with the information explosion. Fingers typing on an adding machine calculator (2:28); punch cards (2:31). Animations: “No competition here” index card and “Conklin Beats Alamer to Market!” newspaper headline (2:53). Research and Development Department sign (2:59). Animation of a man carrying a pile of books in a library (3:20); cartoon bottle of aspirin. “Technical Library” sign (3:43). A librarian opens a file cabinet and leafs through index cards; “Stable Process Controls” book by Stockwell (4:00). Animation showing the benefits of using keywords instead of subjects to index information (4:13). “Accounting” sign (4:36). Data cards; a typewriter; punch cards for author, title, source, key words, abstracts (5:02). A Key Word In Context (KWIC) index (5:33), where title keywords are arranged in alphabetical order. An IBM reproducing punch machine (7:03), which used lookup files to search through cards with the same keywords. “Mathematical Analysis” by Edward Mark (7:53). The film describes advances in reducing search time, handling more complex queries, and tape and disc storage. A woman using an IBM document processor (8:32). “Librarian” and “Director of Information” signs (9:51). Animation of a green head silhouette with keywords, representing a “users profile” (10:18) that matches keywords to specific interests, a concept known as Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) (title card at 10:59). An example of how computers could be used to search company procedure manuals; animation shows a computer searching for keywords stored on magnetic tape (12:05). An animation, “Which Man?” (12:43) showing how machine methods can be used to match employees with job requirements. A similar scenario and animation, “Which Vendor?”(13:00) is shown for the purchasing department. Title card: “Has It Been Made Before?” (13:14) showing an animation to match customer orders against products to find duplicates. An IBM 9603 image file system (13:53), used to retrieve printed or visual material such as microfilm from a central file. Reduced images on film strips are fed into the machine (14:29), and control cards are punched to index the location. The IBM image file system in action (15:12). A sample model is shown of a video terminal that can receive document images and project them on a screen (15:52). The film ends by reiterating the need for more efficient information retrieval and data processing systems as the pace of business, science, and government advances. Credits: Data Processing Division and Advanced Systems Development Division of International Business Machines Corporation. Produced by Newsfilm, USA.
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This 1961 animated and live action film by IBM discusses developments made in information retrieval over the past decades, using the example of a fictional company, Alamer International, to show the progress IBM has made and how its machines can be used to facilitate business operations. The film begins with instructions on how to focus the projector screen to ensure optimal visual and sound quality (0:24). “Information” text flashes over a green letter I in the background (1:05). Capital letter “I”s march out of a press onto a book (1:10) as narration emphasizes the amount of printed information available. A cartoon typewriter; leaflets on a bulletin board; a mimeograph (1:21). Title card: “Information Retrieval” (1:53). “Collection, Selection, Indexing, Abstracting, Dissemination, Storage, Retrieval, Transmission, Display” scroll up from the bottom in mauve text (2:00). Animation of Alamer International (2:20), an imaginary company faced with the information explosion. Fingers typing on an adding machine calculator (2:28); punch cards (2:31). Animations: “No competition here” index card and “Conklin Beats Alamer to Market!” newspaper headline (2:53). Research and Development Department sign (2:59). Animation of a man carrying a pile of books in a library (3:20); cartoon bottle of aspirin. “Technical Library” sign (3:43). A librarian opens a file cabinet and leafs through index cards; “Stable Process Controls” book by Stockwell (4:00). Animation showing the benefits of using keywords instead of subjects to index information (4:13). “Accounting” sign (4:36). Data cards; a typewriter; punch cards for author, title, source, key words, abstracts (5:02). A Key Word In Context (KWIC) index (5:33), where title keywords are arranged in alphabetical order. An IBM reproducing punch machine (7:03), which used lookup files to search through cards with the same keywords. “Mathematical Analysis” by Edward Mark (7:53). The film describes advances in reducing search time, handling more complex queries, and tape and disc storage. A woman using an IBM document processor (8:32). “Librarian” and “Director of Information” signs (9:51). Animation of a green head silhouette with keywords, representing a “users profile” (10:18) that matches keywords to specific interests, a concept known as Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) (title card at 10:59). An example of how computers could be used to search company procedure manuals; animation shows a computer searching for keywords stored on magnetic tape (12:05). An animation, “Which Man?” (12:43) showing how machine methods can be used to match employees with job requirements. A similar scenario and animation, “Which Vendor?”(13:00) is shown for the purchasing department. Title card: “Has It Been Made Before?” (13:14) showing an animation to match customer orders against products to find duplicates. An IBM 9603 image file system (13:53), used to retrieve printed or visual material such as microfilm from a central file. Reduced images on film strips are fed into the machine (14:29), and control cards are punched to index the location. The IBM image file system in action (15:12). A sample model is shown of a video terminal that can receive document images and project them on a screen (15:52). The film ends by reiterating the need for more efficient information retrieval and data processing systems as the pace of business, science, and government advances. Credits: Data Processing Division and Advanced Systems Development Division of International Business Machines Corporation. Produced by Newsfilm, USA.
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