MOVIE INDUSTRY SADLY TRIVIALIZES COMPUTER GRAPHICS : LOCAL VIEW.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: August 22, 1997 | Copyright information

Byline: David Peltz

``COMPUTER firms turn from guns to films, video'' by Michael White (Daily News, Business, Aug. 8) gleefully tells us that the entertainment industry is reaping huge benefits from computer-graphics technology that was originally developed for and funded by the now nearly defunct American defense and research communities.

White would have us believe it is a good thing that computer-graphics companies now sell to Hollywood and no longer depend on what he called ``narrow military and medical applications.'' As a 31-year veteran of the computer-graphics ...

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