Re: open letter to the Google company, on the value of the scientific groups

On Oct 9, 6:05 am, Franz Gnaedinger <f...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 9, 5:12 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, in Franz-world, cameras "run" the way sprinters or marathoners (or
anyone in between) run, and _that_ is somehow the connection with
feet???

Hunters walk around, stalking their prey,
covering ground, and then shoot lances
or arrows or bullets at the game - camera
men drive around and make footage and
their cameras run and they shoot pictures.
Footage is a compound of foot and a form
of Latin agere 'to act' going along with PAD
meaning activity of feet, and the obsolete
word (digital cameras don't need celluloid
that was measured in feet) is still in use
because it works on another level you
may call the subconscious or unconscious
of language, footage = foot+agere, running,
shooting, an ages old activity since Homo
erectus began hunting, abandoned only
some ten thousand years ago with the
invention of agriculture but still present
in the genome of the Western Europeans
who remain genetically the Magdalenian
hunters of old, and it shows in language.
Footage is obsolete but still in use, with
a new meaning: to cover ground in a
metaphorical sense, to make visual
recordings of an event, to cover that
event by means of a running camera
that shoots pictures ... Is this so hard
to understand, Peter? Harlan?

Some German expressions that explian journalism
in terms of hunting: die Nae im Wind haben 'to have
the nose in the wind', eine Geschichte wittern 'to take
up the scent of a story', ein Thema verfolgen ' to stalk
a topic', dranbleiben 'to follow closely', das Publikum
auf dem Laufenden halten 'to keep the public informed,
literally on the run', der rasende Reporter (Egon Erwin
Kisch) 'the racing reporter' on the move, taking the
public along, allowing them to see through his eyes,
and if a reporter is a video journalist we can see
through the eyes of the running camera ...
.

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