Popular Culture Review Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 2000 | Page 80

76 Popular Culture Review moving image apparatus itself will take in the coming century is another matter altogether. There already exist a number of video imaging systems where resolution and image quality genuinely rival that of 35mm film, and with the general introduction of video imaging instead of photographic image capture, the motion picture industry will be taking a giant leap forward into the future. Since nearly all films are now subjected to a digital “clean up” process on their route to final distribution, in which the original photographic images are transformed into a series of dots and pixels, manipulated in a variety of methods, and t