The Kryptonians had a kick-butt UI. Hoola hoops and holoprojectors. Hoo-ah!
http://youtu.be/ejizOV-IQEM
EDIT: thinking about it, the link near the bottom of my post here is possibly the first holographic UI presented in cinema, Logan's Run 1976. Forget stuff like R2D2 projecting "holographic" images, for one thing that's '77, and for another, G. Lucas simply used clever edits to achieve the look of a hologram. However, in Logan's Run, these holograms are REAL. They are exactly what the camera sees. They made expensive laser scans of Michael York saying his lines, and by shifting the laser as it etched the film, they can create a motion effect like a lenticular lens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_lens
In order to make the animation, the film has to be made into a cylinder, and then the cylinder is rotated under a light. Since the film is prismatic, as the light strafes the etched surface, you see refractive images like pixels made out of rainbows - hence the wild colours. If anyone remembers The Hologram Shop on Robson during Expo 86, then you know what I mean. Or maybe you bought the Voight-Kampff edition of Blade Runner (the grey briefcase), which has an unbelievable lenticular hologram in it, one of the best I've ever seen. In the case of Logan's run, set lights were enough to illuminate the hologram. The audio was looped in afterwards. You can clearly see the difference between the animated computer display and the real in-camera footage of the moving hologram.
Here's the clip from Logan's Run. Look! Look!
http://youtu.be/q0Amt30_QVQ?t=40s
EDIT EDIT: Oh yeah, and then there's Red Dwarf, ugh. There's a holographic character. You can tell he's a hologram because they put an H on his forehead. No joke. Like pretty much any holographic UI, he was annoying at best.
Read if you feel the need to know more, but I feel ignorance is bliss:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Rimmer
