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INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA STUDIES: LAB 8
- 9 April 1997
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- THE REALITY EFFECT
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- Among the screenings at this week's lab session, we will watch
- Errol Morris's rarely-seen made-for-TV short, Interrotron Stories.
- (The Interrotron is a device Morris invented for interviewing
- people so that they appear to be speaking directly to the camera,
- and by extension the audience.)
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- Interrotron Stories has not been previously shown on American
- or British television. The three stories in
- the program are a kind of spoof of TV current-affairs type
- documentary, dealing respectively with a parrot that allegedly witnessed
- a murder, an interview with the owner of a cryonics company who tried
to
- freeze his mother's head (if I remember right), and a killer post-office
clerk.
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- Screening is in 56-114 at 7 p.m. as usual.
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mroberts@mit.edu