The Dream Machine (1991)
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Cast & Crew.
Andrew Sachs
Self - Narrator (voice)
Will Lyman
Narrator (1992)
Lesley Judd
Self - Narrator (voice)
Peter Howell
Original Music Composer
Jon Palfreman
Executive Producer / Executive Producer / Producer / Writer
Michael Chin
Director of Photography
Brian Dowley
Director of Photography
Peter Hoving
Director of Photography
Richard Adam
Director of Photography
Andy Elliott
Director of Photography
Frank Hammond
Director of Photography
Rich Lerner
Director of Photography
Alexandra Anthony
Editor
Peter Parnham
Editor
Dick Bartlett
Editor
Nancy Linde
Editor / Producer / Writer
Robert Hone
Producer / Writer
Fiona Holmes
Producer / Writer
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The Machine That Changed the World (1992) (broadcast under the alternative title "The Dream Machine" in the UK, with different narration) is a 5-episode television series on the history of electronic digital computers. It was written and directed by Nancy Linde, and produced by WGBH Television of Boston, Massachusetts, and the British Broadcasting Corporation. Backers included the Association for Computing Machinery, the National Science Foundation, and the UNISYS Corporation.
The first three episodes deal with the history of fully electronic general-purpose digital computers from the ENIAC through desktop microcomputers. The pre-history of such machines is examined in the first episode ("Giant Brains"), and includes a discussion of the contributions of Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and others. The fourth episode ("The Thinking Machine") explores the topic of artificial intelligence. The fifth episode ("The World at Your Fingertips") explores the then-newly-emerging worldwide networking of computers. All episodes begin and end with a song by Peter Howell, "Stellae matutinae radius exoritur" ("The morning star's ray arises") and are narrated by long-time Frontline narrator Will Lyman.