Hummingbird (1967)Stream and Watch Online

Looking to watch 'Hummingbird' in the comfort of your own home? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Charles Csuri-directed movie via subscription can be challenging, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'Hummingbird' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'Hummingbird' right now, here are some finer points about the Ohio State University animation flick.

Released January 1st, 1967, 'Hummingbird' stars The movie has a runtime of about 3 min, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled reviews from top users.

What, so now you want to know what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "Hummingbird is one of the earliest computeranimated films by the artist and programmer Charles Csuri Aside from creating pioneering computer graphics systems Csuri is recognized for introducing figuration into the language of computer graphics which was often seen even by artists as a tool for visualizing abstract mathematical formulations While Hummingbird creates a picture of its titular animal the hummingbirds ultimate abstract annihilation also points to the compatibility between abstraction and figuration allowed by computer animation To make the film over 30000 individual images generated by a computer were drawn directly on film using a microfilm plotter Each frame was programmed using one punch card an example of the complex and laborintensive operations required by early computer animation The prelude to Hummingbird provides an overview of the way in which the film was madea useful primer for much computergenerated art of the time" .