"Proves that brevity is indeed the soul of wit!"
- Marshall Fine, Rochester Times Union, 5/2/85

In 1979, while viewing the New York Times archives on microfilm at the New York Public Library for a research project, it occurred to me to project each page as a single frame of movie film - rather than letting them fly across the screen of the microfilm reader in a blur.

In this film, the Sunday New York Times and the Sunday New York Daily News for November 4, 1979 are projected, pin registered, at the rate of 24 pages per second, synchronized with the sound of printing presses.

The audience's visceral reaction to static held images of front pages juxtaposed with the bombardment of information exemplifies Eisenstein's "The quantity of the interval determines the pressure of the tension."