MrBuddy
And it was 3 years before the Utah teapot too. This may be the earliest example of a computer generated, uncanny valley captured on film.

fluffy
I know the stencil buffers are a stupid in-joke but the basis of stencil buffer-based algorithms do actually date back that far. None of those were used in this video though.

oddeye
My socks would have been blown clean out of my bellbottom flairs.