Viewfinder: The Making of...
Sometimes it's not the destination that's important, but the act of traveling.
I started making moving images when I was a junior in high school. In those days, film was the cheapest and most accessible medium to make moving images. But, by today’s standards, it was expensive and inconvenient. Two and a half minutes of film costs about $10 (film processing included), or about four dollars per minute. Today, we can buy a two-hour VHS tape for two bucks, which comes to less than two cents a minute. Editing film was tedious because I literally had to cut the film and glue it back together to make a splice. And using a projector to show my finished films to people was inconvenient.
It's easy to take video's accessibility for granted. Lots of people can see the videos we make by just popping a tape into a VCR--after all, over 80% of Americans own one. But back in the heyday of home filmmaking, very few people had a film projector. So I had to show my films with my own projector. Preparing for the presentation was an ordeal. I had to aim the projector, focus it, thread the film through it and, finally, darken …
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