Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digital is not photography (long)
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:14:48 -0500

on 30/10/00 4:11 pm, Paul Chefurka at Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com wrote:

> I don't know about you, but I go to get "movies".  Blockbuster doesn't rent
> much that I'd dignify by calling it a "film".

Calling a movie a 'film' these days is very unfashionable in the biz.
Everyone makes 'movies'. I know I write them. 'Film' has all the wrong
connotations... like calling a walkman a 'portable tape-replay apparatus' or
the radio in your car a 'wireless'. Or having a handlebar moustache.  The
only people who use the word 'film' are (a) students (b) critics (c)
producers who are trying to raise money from the National Film Board of
Canada.
- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com

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