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See It Now: Automation (June 9, 1957)

24 Jan

82m

Broadcast Date:  June 9, 1957

Network: CBS

Synopsis (WorldCat): Filmed exploration of how automation was changing the way America worked and how computers and automatic machines were revolutionizing industry, including the replacement of workers by machines. Includes interviews with Walter Reuther, then president of the UAW and vice-president of the AFL-CIO, Thomas J. Watson Jr., then head of IBM, and others. An in-depth exploration of the beginning of the age beyond the Industrical Revolution. [With Edward Murrow]

 
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