On This Day: July 9, 1982 – Tron Premiered in Theaters

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On This Day: July 9, 1982 – Tron Premiered in Theaters.

On this day July 9, 1982, Tron premiered in theaters and introduced audiences to a groundbreaking vision of the digital world long before computer graphics became a Hollywood standard. Directed by Steven Lisberger, the film starred Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn, a computer programmer who gets transported into a virtual realm ruled by a totalitarian mainframe. With striking visuals and an electronic score, Tron was one of the first films to extensively use computer generated imagery.

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