CINEMA SCREEN v/s TV TUBE
In the perspective of millenniums that the Visual Arts took
to grow and mature, Cinema and Television can be seen as mere babies. While
Cinema genetically remained true a genealogy, TV tube destroyed an umbilical
aesthetic connection which later day Digital technology rectified. I am looking
at the idea of “Projecting a Film” as opposed to saturation bombardment of
photons or fermions or whatever, that is the basis of forming a TV image and
which led to the famous saying by Marshall McLuhan, “Medium Is The Message”; so
true of the neon sign. We are bathed and inundated with electronic bombardment
only part of which falls on our retina and creates the illusion of an image
while the rest of it penetrates our bodies and destroys our soul.
Cinema does not do so. All human visual perception is based
upon reflected light that is caught by our eyes and that is how we see the
world around us. No one would like to look into the Sun while we enjoy looking
at the Moon, which reflects the light falling upon it. And then enter TV & Neon
sign that stood a time honoured tenet of human existence upon its head.
Cinema,, from the very beginning was based upon the notion of “Projection”,
true to the history of human visual perception. In the realm of Digital Media
lately the notion of projection has surfaced as a welcome innovation. There
are, of course, the LCD monitors that do not share the bombardment principle of
the old tube.
Rahatavalokit
Caca262
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