A Forthright Animated History of the Camera
Filmmaker Andy Saladino of the Royal Ocean Film Society who posts animated video essays about animation, turned to the other side of the animation equations with a history of the camera. This history is rather cynical in nature, however there is a bright spot along the way. inspired by a brilliantly forthright essay by Richard Williams entitled "A Lecture on Man".
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