The Film The Studio Made For Free Then Buried | Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Описание: The film Universal Pictures made for free, and then hid from the world. In this episode of Golden Flicker, we uncover the strange, contradictory production history of Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).

We explore how a remarkable corporate sponsorship filled a soundstage with millions of dollars in real computer hardware , why a lead actor was forced to erase his own identity to secure the role , and how a studio's apathy buried a prophetic masterpiece about artificial intelligence. From the presence of a young Steven Spielberg on a closed set to the classified military technology used to create a machine's voice, discover the secrets behind the grandfather of the modern AI thriller.

Chapters
00:00 - The Prescient Warning of Colossus
01:46 - The Disastrous 1970 Box Office Release
03:31 - D.F. Jones, James Bridges, and the Script
04:57 - The Control Data Corporation Hardware Deal
06:30 - Hollywood's 1970 Financial Crisis
07:45 - Albert Whitlock's Matte Paintings & Authentic Sets
09:08 - The SIGSALY Vocoder and the Voice of Colossus
09:51 - Eric Braeden's Name Change & Steven Spielberg
13:02 - Censorship and the Infamous "Sex Requirement" Scene
13:45 - James Cameron's Connection & The Alignment Problem
16:43 - Why Universal Pictures Abandoned Colossus

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