Movie Notes

• In the daily news they only took pictures
• 6 to 7 editions a day
• put the picture up very big to attract attention from people so that they could buy the newspaper
• In the evening photograph showed people never seen before
• Wanted news so bad that they snuck a camera in an execution chamber and took one of someone sitting in the electric chair
• photographs began to replace drawings
• people wanted to believe that photographs were true
• photographs transformed little things to objects of desire
• Babe Ruth was second most photographed person to advertise stuff
• photographs of celebrities got people obsessed