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Production.

Design, animation and production by Ian Mitchell
Funded by Liverpool School of Art & Design
Hosted by beaufonts.com (courtesy of Media Temple)

Music.

All music featured in the film has been taken from the album Music From Mathematics Played by IBM 7090 Computer and Digital to Sound Transducer, published by Brunswick Records in 1962.

The following tracks have been used with the kind permission of the original composers and arrangers or their families. Copyright remains with the original composers and arrangers and their families.

Bicycle Built For Two arranged by M.V. Mathews
Five Against Seven - Random Canon composed by J.R.Pierce
Numerology composed by M.V. Mathews
Pitch Variations composed by N.Guttman

Further information can be found about these artists from the Archive section.

Photo of Columbia University Computer Center from 1964Photo of Columbia University Computer Center from 1964

Sourced footage.

Photographs used in the Daisy Bell sequence have been used with permission of the University Archives, Columbia University in the City of New York.

Film used in the Numerology sequence has been used with permission of NASA and remains the copyright of NASA.

Additional thanks.

A special thanks to Max Mathews for his help in contacting the original composers.

Thanks to my friends Andrew Terry and Mark Barron for their advise on matters of copyright law.

And to my select preview panel of critical friends; Pete Thomas, Sam Meech and Seel Garside.

About Ian Mitchell.

I am a graphic designer based in Liverpool, UK. I am also a senior lecturer at Liverpool School of Art & Design where I teach Graphic Arts and pursue my research interests - interactive typography and moving graphics.

I can be contacted at: i.mitchell@ljmu.ac.uk