Actuality Films

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wide_angle/v018/18.3cahn.html

Here is a link to an interesting article that follows up on what Prof. Tantillo was talking about today concerning the loss of interest in these landscape films as opposed to the Hudson River School paintings. Apparently, the new technology imposing on these landscapes were impossible to ignore in these films and even with the framing elements similar to the ones that the painters used, the sublime effect that viewers enjoyed was impossible to recreate using film.