Future Block
Foreign title: Le Barrage Du Futur (French)
- Studio
- National Film Board of Canada
- Distributor
- National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis
A film about the appropriateness of new technology and its effects on people. The case in point revolves around a bank whose human tellers find themselves unemployed when they are replaced by electronic tellers. A mild-mannered client of the bank is overwhelmed and humiliated by his first encounter with the dispassionate computer. Conventional cel animation is contrasted with computer-generated images to heighten the satire in this look at the problems that can arise when technology ignores human needs.
Characters
Bank Client
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Kevin McCracken
Producing
- Producer
- David Verrall
- Executive Producer
- Douglas MacDonald
Writing
- Writer
- Kevin McCracken
Animation
- Animator
- Kevin McCracken
- Computer Animation
- Kevin McCracken
Voices
- Voice
- Maury Chaykin (as Maury Chaiken), Kathleen Fee, Wally Martin, Walter Massey
Music
- Music
- Normand Roger
- Electronic Effects
- Normand Roger
Crew
- Animation Camera
- Raymond Dumas
- Animation Software
- John Weldon
- Sound
- Louis Hone
- Sound Editing
- Andr¨¦ Galbrand
- Re-Recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
Awards
Nominee, Genie Award, Best Short Film, Kevin McCracken, 1988.
Finalist Award, Independent Film and Video Expo, New York, 1988.
Citation for Honorable Mention for Creativity Social Studies, Social Issues - Technology and Society, National Educational Media Network Competition, Oakland, California, 1988
Finalist Award, Independent Film and Video Expo, New York, 1988.
Citation for Honorable Mention for Creativity Social Studies, Social Issues - Technology and Society, National Educational Media Network Competition, Oakland, California, 1988