How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 2
Eastman giving Edison the first roll of movie film, via Wikimedia Commons
This piece picks up where Part 1 of Peter Kaufman’s article left off yesterday…
The epistemological nightmare we seem to be in, bombarded over our screens and speakers with so many moving-image messages per day, false and true, is at least in part due to the paralysis that we – scholars, journalists, and regulators, but also producers and consumers – are still exhibiting over how to anchor facts a