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#Photoplay
Hamlet On The Holodeck
From additive to expressive forms; the multimedia scrapbook
Narrative films were originally called photoplays and were at first thought of as a merely additive art form (photography plus theatre) created by pointing a static camera at a stagelike set. Photoplays gave way to movies when filmmakers learned, for example, to create suspense…