Emett’s Computer

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

617

Date Released

20 Oct 1966

Date recorded

23 Sep 1966

Length of issue (in feet)

682

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Gipsy Caravans
2. 2Cowboy City
3. 3Emett’s Computer

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

Pathe synopsis: But we’ve got a computer, even if we don’t need it. We enter a world of frenetic fluctuations controlled by a Random Selector that Emett calls his Eeney-meeney-miney-mo unit on which gambling is prohibited. Emett’s preposterous computer uses measuring tapes and woodpeckers with their beaks in playing cards as a card punch reader. The information feed gets a supply of buns and heavy water goes down the brain drain. You can imagine the rest.

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Written sources

Pathe Colour Pictorial Lobby Cards   Used for synopsis

Credits:

Commentator

Wilfrid Thomas

Length of story (in feet)

218

Story extras:

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