You see, the camera extends your feet and your eyes; a movie camera carries your eyes out on your feet into the world -- it's mobile. And TV doesn't do that; it doesn't extend your eyes and your feet, it extends your eyes and your hands: it feels, it handles, it scans the environment, by scanning, by handling.
Q and A with M McL, Take One, Nov-Dec, 1966, p 9
Year: 1966
Chapters:
Environment | Movies
↪ Also at #4806
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan