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Tech in Film/Video/Photo NOT porno driven

Having been trained at one of the worlds best film schoools, and having been taught by the very people responsible for inventing portable film and video equipment, I know for a fact that those improvements had absolutely nothing to do with the porno industry.

Ricky Leacock never watched, let alone shot porno. If not for his early work on portable film equipment and his work with d. p. pennibaker (filmed the famous Dylan biopic "Don;t Look Back" on the worlds first portable film equipment), the tech might not yet exist.

Polaroid Instant Film was invented by a guy who wanted to take pics of his family and show them off imediately, not some dweeb who wanted to film porno.

I worked at the Franklin Institute, and I was part of work that made streaming video for business apps possible. Not one of the people I met had anything remotely related to porno in thier portfolio.

Now, I do not know all the facts behind streaming video, but something tells me that porno had only a terciary contribution. More to do with money waiting to be spent than anything else, in RE: porno. The development was already taking place, porno consumer bucks (these idiots will spend big money on the most retarded looking videos - I know several girls who do streaming live video and they say the idiots have the most retarded requests they've ever hear.) only helped make the tech more affordable to everyone.

BTW, my teacher and my class was in on the development of the Aaton Minima A, the first small footprint 16 mm sound sync film camera. I was shooting with that camera before it was publicly available. Not one of us did it so we could better film porno.

Posted by: Hempman   Posted on: 01/14/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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