Digital dinosaurs

Key computer-generated moments in (mostly) live-action films

WESTWORLD

(1973) The infrared point-of-view of the gun-slinging robot (Yul Brynner, above) includes the first ever 2-D digitised images to appear in a feature film.

TRON

(1982) Disney elects to go totally bananas with three-dimensional CGI. The duelling light-cycle sequence was particularly popular with chemically altered students.

YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES

(1985) The film itself was unremarkable but, with the angry stained-glass knight, it featured the first ever photorealistic computer-generated character.

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY(1991) The silvery cyborg that formed itself into Robert Patrick was the first CG character to exhibit believable human movements.

JURASSIC PARK(1993) This was the point at which actors became genuinely nervous as the dinosaurs integrated so smoothly with the real world.