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.
Beyond Westworld was a short-lived 1980 television series that carried on the stories of the two feature films, Westworld and Futureworld.
Futureworld, the 1976 sequel to the 1973 science fiction film Westworld
The animated hand was a digitized version of Edwin Catmull's left hand, taken from his 1971 experimental short subject A Computer Animated Hand.
His numerous of film and television credits included Futureworld, Up in Smoke and Lost in Space.
He worked on many television series such as The Rockford Files and films including I Will Fight No More Forever (1975), Futureworld (1976), Foolin' Around (1980), the 1982 Mike Hammer film I, the Jury, Pancho Barnes (1988), and La révolution française (1989).