Even with the emphasis that the author put on it, the statement that the evolution of video was dependent on the development of technology is an understatement. we have come a long long way especially in just the last few decades. These days, anyone can pick up their iphone (if they have one, at least a fifth of the population of the WORLD does) and make at least a short film, and then upload it to the internet and distribute it to an audience. However, about a century ago this simple task that might take 100 times as long and require 20 times as many people depending on the content. A simple short film today might only hours, and can be done by yourself; a simple short video a century ago might take months, and require the help of several specialists etc.
Animation is an overwhelmingly good example of this, since today there have propagated a numerous variety of tools to accomplish an animation. Back in the years of its birth, animation was done in a slow, frame by frame process where everything was hand drawn, and then transferred to film, and then developed into a production with enough recognition that could be distributed and shown to others, if there was a space/technology available to screen it. Several decades ago, animation took a transition to digital, and today there are hundreds of programs that allow an animator to make a full film and then send it right away to an internet audience (or transfer it to a disc for television). The efficiency that has come with the new animating technology has vastly expanded the possibilities of who can be a creator. This video demonstrates one way the technology has developed: color.
In the video, we see how film makers added color to their animation, piece by piece. It was a long and complicated process to achieve something that we don't even need to consider today. It is nearly completely taken for granted. Unless of course we are specifically setting a filter on our video editing program to make something black in white, ironically, to make it seem older.
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