Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Scholars Compass Kinetic Imaging Publications and Presentations Dept. of Kinetic Imaging 2007 Early Connections Between Film and Emerging Media as Evidenced in the Animated Worlds of Adam Beckett Pamela Turner Virginia Commonwealth University,
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[email protected]. Animation Studies – Vol.2, 2007 Pamela Turner Early Connections Between Film and Emerging Media as Evidenced in the Animated Worlds of Adam Beckett Making a “film” today rarely involves a journey to the lab as images are more often recorded digitally and not on celluloid. Even video’s electromagnetic record is transformed to bits and bytes. There is no frame to splice. The visual material exists as a virtual reference only. As McLuhan points out, new media doesn’t replace the old, existing media, but changes it.