differential analyzer in EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS

[William Maddox]

--- Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote:

> About 1 hr in, a "computer" is used to analyze
> flying saucer
> messages.  It's a Bush-style (no not our dimwit
> president, the MIT
> guy) diff analyzer! Operating! With plotter!
> 
> TiVo'd it. 1956 Harryhausen movie. Haven't seen it
> since I was 12!

It appears even earlier in "When Worlds Collide"
(1951).

--Bill