John Whitney, Sr. is well known as an American animator, composer and inventor. He is widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation, and there is a wealth of material to review.

John Whitney’s Catalog, from 1961, is reel of work created with his analog computer combined with film camera he built from a World War II anti-aircraft gun sight.

Whitney and the techniques he developed with this machine were what inspired Douglas Trumbull to use the slit scan technique in Stanley Kubrik’s 2001: A Space Odyssey during the Stargate sequence of the film.