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3.6.10 THE END
Since it is a tradition of the
cinema to announce to the au-
dience “e End,” we have done
so here. e image behind the
words shows the end of O’Con-
nor’s neighborhood cinema in
the 1950s—the Empire eater.
Yet movies are still produced and
shown to audiences large and
small; they are still produced by
major studios; and they are now
produced by independent artists;
and they are made by individuals
for personal use and publication
on social media.
We sought precise, repeatable, numeric, and graphical representations of the lm signal that
would enable discussion of lmic structure—the message—so that discussions of meaning would
have a signicant touchstone. It might be said that we sought a method of ngerprinting the
frames. It is our passionate hope that this will be the start of discussions, arguments, experiments,
and discovery of more and more useful ways to bring lmic documents to the point of use.
O’Connor & Anderson May 2018
3.5 AUTHOR—MESSAGE—RECIPIENT RELATION