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The Mind's Eye (1990) Odyssey productions

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The Mind's Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey released in 1990 by Odyssey Productions and Miramar Productions on VHS (this is a medievalish plastic film type of recording medium somewhat akin to parchment and recorded by nerds (a modern sect of monks)) and laserdisc which is the T-Rex ancestor to modern cds and dvds.  Seriously, they were the size of a small house and ancient.  I actually watched this movie on a friend's laserdisc player (it came with the player) because he wanted to show off the "intense resolution of his laserdisc player" and actual laserdisc version of movies were insanely expensive. I remember being not overly impressed, and thinking to myself that computer generated graphics were so inferior to other types that there would be no way this would ever catch on.  In my defense technology greatly improved and the creators greatly improved their skill sets as time went on. I would imagine most people watching this today would be similarly unimpr...