Maps and Movies

A colleague and I are working on paper/presentation that deals with the historical evolution of GIS or GPS technologies in film and TV. Specifically, we are interested in examples of early precursors to map related technologies that are now common. For example, early police shows have crime locations marked as pins on a map, today there are electronic maps with a multitude of different information associated with each point. Another example would be the James Bond film Goldfinger which has a back-lit, moving map in 007’s Aston Martin which is very similar to most in-car GPS devices. I was wondering if the community had other examples from films/TV that they recall early examples of what are now standard modern mapping or GPS devices. Thank you in advance for any assistance.
Gene D

Well all the Indiana Jones films have him traveling on a plane, and they do close-ups as the camera follows the red dots that are the cities that he leaves and then arrives in. [I know that at least the third movie - The Last Crusade] has a lot of those. I'm pretty sure that "Raiders of the Lost Ark does as well, or there's the part where they find the tomb of the Ark of the Covenant by using an ancient replica of the city and finding where the sun falls on it at a certain time.

Thanks for th input. The Muppet Movie (the new one) also uses this travel by map technique

If you think of any others let me know
GeneD

Robocop has some kind of map-based tracking. Total Recall as well I believe.

Thanks Ascendancy I will check into them. If you recall any others let me know,

One that always springs to mind is Lex Luthor's giant world map when he's tracking the oil tankers...Not sure if that's what you're looking for though...Presumably more like car tracking around cities...I'll have a think...It is something you see in a lot of old movies but can't remember which ones.