Letters: Cameramen framed
2 May 2012, 1:11 am
Charlie Brooker is certainly right that we remember eras in cinematic style ( What is the difference between The Hobbit and the news? Not as much as there should be , G2, 30 April), and he could even push this back to the frozen monochrome of Victorian photography. But why does he have to spoil it by blaming the hand-cranked cameras of the 1920s for speeded-up footage from that period? Many ...