• When Charlie Chaplin First Spoke Onscreen: How His Famous Great Dictator Speech Came About

    When Charlie Chaplin First Spoke Onscreen: How His Famous Great Dictator Speech Came About
    Charlie Chaplin came up in vaudeville, but it was silent film that made him the most famous man in the world. His mastery of that form primed him to feel a degree of skepticism about sound when it came along: in 1931, he called the silent picture “a universal means of expression,” whereas the talkies, as they were then known, “necessarily have a limited field.” Nevertheless, he was too astute a reader of public tastes to believe he could stay silent forever, though he onl
  • How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 1

    How the Moving Image Has Become the Medium of Record: Part 1
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    How did we get to the point where we’ve come to believe so many lies that 77 million Americans voted into the White House a criminal reality TV star from NBC, one groomed by a reality TV producer from CBS, who then appointed his Cabinet from Fox and X and World Wrestling Entertainment?
    It’s a long story, but the moving image had something to do with it – which is to say, the way we have let television, video, and screen culture run almost entirely u

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