Think of the distance covered by a movie from the pristine new print released by the studio in the Sixties, say, to what’s left of it on television in the Nineties, with its widescreen format scanned-and –panned, its colour fading or curdling, its rhythm pulverised by commercials, its language possibly censored & the degree of information contained in each of its images virtually halved by the far poorer definition of the tv screen
Gilbert Adair
The manuscript notebook
