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
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan