This 1982 animated education film was produced by March Brothers Inc. It shows a girl on a farm teaching a boy about the components of a microcomputer — what we would now call a personal computer — , how it works, and what its different uses are. After a bank robber on the run enters their house and holds them hostage, they end up using the computer to trap her.
0:16 “Microcomputers: An Introduction or The Computer and the Crook”, 0:35 From the Series “Simply Scientific”, 0:55 a boy and his mom on the bus, 1:18 a girl waiting for the bus with the boy to arrive and they talk, 1:57 quick overview of what a microcomputer can do, 2:10 the boy and the girl keep speaking, 3:40 the girl and the boy begin singing, 4:47 radio announces that someone robbed a bank, 5:23 a computer generated map showing where the criminal could be, 5:58 a cross section of a microcomputer including the keyboard, CPU, memory, busses, and the output device, 6:36 close up of a CPU, 6:48 close up of memory chips, 7:01 cross section of the busses, 7:23 analogy of a computer with a railroad switchyard, 8:10 the girl explains to the boy how the computer helps in the barn with lines of code, 9:48 both play different computer games, 10:26 girl explains to the boy how binary code and bits work, 12:14 the girl teaches the boy how to code a program, 12:48 the bank robber shows up at the family home and threatens the father with a gun, 13:13 bank robber locks the children in the house, 13:41 girl uses the computer to flash the barn lights to signal SOS, 14:05 bank robber speaks to the children and then goes into the barn, 14:54 girl uses the computer to lock the bank robber in the barn, 15:44 Edited by John Matoian, Directed by David March, 16:17 Produced by March Brothers Inc.
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