ABSTRACT
Cinema is an industry and as such it is an ecosystem. Furthermore, it is also complicit in ecological issues much like other industries. Indeed, a number of studies have examined the cinematic footprint of filmmaking and, too, film and its relation to ecology. cinema came down to the revolution of wheels and reels at the right speed in order to create the illusion of real movement in real time. At first, this was a hand-cranked affair: images were made by capturing light onto film, light sources were primarily natural, and screened-images were produced by light shining through the processed film. The interrelationship between war-technology and the film industry is nothing new and dates back almost to the beginning of cinema at the end of the 19th century. Thanks to Von Braun, however, Soviet superiority was soon surpassed by the USA whose own nuclear weapon technology led them to design smaller lighter warheads.
