Velvet Light Trap articles from September 1995

Velvet Light Trap archives from September 1995

Introduction.
September 22, 1995... 1995 IS A LANDMARK YEAR IN OUR FIELDS OF study, marking the centennials of cinema and radio. In the century since their inception these and subsequent technologies of representation have been enduring areas of critical study. Theorists from...

"Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own?": A problem of digital photography.
September 22, 1995... WILLIAM J. MITCHELL, AUTHOR OF THE REconfigured Eye, complains in Scientific American that the unassailable probity of chemical photography was based on its causal relationship with the world, but "the emergence of digital imaging has...

"Filming the family": home movie systems and the domestication of spectatorship.
September 22, 1995... DURING THE, EARLY TEENS, A COMBINATION of industrial, technological, and social factors produced a brief but significant vogue for home movies. New lightweight projectors and cameras, mail-order film libraries, and developments in small format...

Camcorder dos and don'ts: popular discourses on amateur video and participatory television.
September 22, 1995... MILLIONS OF TELEVISION VIEWERS WHO tuned in to the debut episode of a prime-time NBC news program in the spring of 1992 witnessed something rather unusual. Instead of seeing professional reporters, anchor people, and camera operators, they saw...

In the frame of Roger Rabbit: visual compositing in film.('Who Framed Roger Rabbit?')
September 22, 1995... USING NO COMPUTER COMPOSITING, WHO Framed Roger Rabbit took optical compositing far beyond what had been done before, winning an award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the 1988 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in...

Surfing through "TV land": notes toward a theory of "video bites" and their function on cable TV.
September 22, 1995... I think you must remember that viewers are volunteers. If they don't want to look for more than several seconds, fine. There are things that are complete messages, that you can absorb in an instant, but if someone wants to stay longer, there's...

Thou shall not steal television: signal theft in the age of information.
September 22, 1995... CABLE TELEVISION'S ESTABLISHMENT WITHIN American culture is, in some respects, so firm that it has acquired the importance of a household utility. And like household utility payments, cable payments are made by many with little debate. The...