“The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.”

As quoted in "some ideas for free from time recording" by Emit Records (1995) https://archive.is/20130628060534/www.emit.cc/img/catalog-page9.jpg

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