The animated hand was a digitized version of Edwin Catmull's left hand, taken from his 1971 experimental short subject A Computer Animated Hand.
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One of the first displays of computer animation was Futureworld (1976), which included an animation of a human face and a hand that had originally appeared in the 1971 experimental short A Computer Animated Hand, created by University of Utah students Edwin Catmull and Fred Parke.