A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The basic fact to keep in mind about the movie camera and projector is their resemblance to the process of human cognition… The camera rolls up the external world on a spool… The camera records and analyzes the daylight world with more than human intensity because of the forty-five degree angle of the camera eye. The projector reveals their daylight world on a dark screen where it becomes a dream world.
“Sight, Sound, and the Fury,” in The Commonweal, 1954, p 493
Year: 1954
Chapter: Movies
Compiled by William Kuhns
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