Bear-skins and Stone Knives
Out fandom foremothers used slide projectors and tape players to make the first vids.
Indeed. A few years ago, members of Vividcon had Kandy Fong fire up a slide projector and cassette tape play to film a batch of these early slideshows. I was lucky enough to be allowed in the room to watch (they needed absolute quiet) and the slideshows held up surprisingly well, once you got into the very slow rhythmic pace. It was like hearing a story. Being. Slowly. Read. Aloud. You. Just. Had. To. Wait. For. The. Final. Word.
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