1970s
| Film | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Metadata | 1971 | An experimental 2D animated short by Peter Foldes drawn on a data tablet, who used the world's first key frame animation software, invented by Nestor Burtnyk and Marceli Wein. |
| A Computer Animated Hand | 1972 | Produced by Ed Catmull, the short demonstrates a computer animated hand, as well as human faces. The film was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2011. |
| Westworld | 1973 | First use of 2D computer animation in a significant entertainment feature film. The point of view of Yul Brynner's gunslinger was achieved with raster graphics. |
| Futureworld | 1976 | First use of 3D computer graphics for animated hand and face. Used 2D digital compositing to materialize characters over a background. |
| Star Wars | 1977 | Used an animated 3D wire-frame graphic for the trench run briefing sequence. |
| Superman: The Movie | 1978 | First film with a computer-generated title sequence. |
| The Black Hole | 1979 | Used raster wire-frame model rendering for the open credits depicting a 3D wireframe of a black hole. |
| Alien | 1979 | Used raster wire-frame model rendering for navigation monitors in the landing sequence. |
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