Fishing at West Cliff, or Semiotics Is for Cinema as Ornithology Is for the Birds

Summary The verb for what one does with a movie camera? It is not a matter of aiming and firing. Truth flies off again, uninjured. The gaze of the seabird biologist, seldom allowed to mingle with subjects of his investigation, is trained on something that develops at a great distance or otherwise out of reach. Imagine a movie composed as a Japanese picture scroll, unrolling west to east. The relationship among events along the way may be of topographical or chronological order (sometimes both). View more details

Fishing at West Cliff, or Semiotics Is for Cinema as Ornithology Is for the Birds

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Genres : Adventure Documentary Short

Release date : Dec 21, 1922

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Summary The verb for what one does with a movie camera? It is not a matter of aiming and firing. Truth flies off again, uninjured. The gaze of the seabird biologist, seldom allowed to mingle with subjects of his investigation, is trained on something that develops at a great distance or otherwise out of reach. Imagine a movie composed as a Japanese picture scroll, unrolling west to east. The relationship among events along the way may be of topographical or chronological order (sometimes both). View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Documentary Short

Release date : Dec 21, 1922

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

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