10 Movies You Didn’t Know Were Responsible For Game-Changing Innovations

If there's going to be a film based on or inspired by the work of Michael Crichton, you can be certain of two things: it's going to revolutionise the movie world in a visual way, and it's going to be set in a theme park. Unless it's about gorillas who can use sign language, but the less said about that one the better.

Jurassic Park is remembered as being when CGI could convincingly, in small doses, be used in place of real living things (dinosaurs are notoriously hard to hire for films) and through the use of amazing animatronics and CGI Jurassic Park is mind-blowing in terms of its visual capabilities. But 1973's Westworld has the high status of being the film when CGI was really born. It's a blurry, grisly birth but it's at least a start.

Using digital image processing to pixelate specific shots used to show the audience how Yul Brynner's gunslinger robot character saw the world. It's a throwaway shot now, one that seems to appear in every Terminator incarnation, but for its time, the brief shots from the gunslinger's point of view are groundbreaking.