What was the first movie to use CGI? (1 Viewer)

[Jeff Pryor]

Back in 1984, with 2010: Odyssey 2, the planet Jupiter was all CGI.

 

[paul_v]

Pixar did the CGI movie of the genesis project file in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan =) I didn't know that they been around for that long =)

 

[Jason Hughes]

According to the Internet Movie Database (which you sometimes have to take with a grain of salt) it is The Black Hole.
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[Kevin M]

Star Wars came out well before The Black Hole.
IMDB..

In 1977 Star Wars used what was probably the first example of 3D computer graphics in film, albeit in the form of vector or wireframe, rather than shaded, imagery. Larry Cuba, in what was then called the Circle Graphics Habitat (now the Electronic Visualization Laboratory, or EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, created a 3D wireframe view of the trench of the Death Star that was used to train rebel pilots. This film also featured a rare example of analog 3D computer graphics--a very brief, false color image of the Deathstar emerging from behind a planet--created using the Scanimate system.

So in a way IMDB is right (Unless you consider 1976's Futureworld and it's digital materialization of some ninja androids, that effect wasn't on a computer display.) but as far as CGI goes The Black Hole wasn't even the sixth film to use it.