"A Computer Animated Hand" (1972) and "Futureworld" (1976)

The first 3D computer graphic images (CGI), of the type common today, was created by Ed Catmull and Fred Parke while grad students at The University of Utah. The digitized hand is Catmull's own, from which a cast was made. Vertices were drawn on this shape to create a mesh of 350 polygons. These wer digitised and the sequence animated by moving the camera point of view. Catmull and Parke would go on to found Pixar.

This film was incorporated into Futureworld (1976, dir. Richard T. Heffron), which thereby became with first feature film to use 3D CGI.