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Originally posted by Yorick:
What do you call a printing press, or the book itself, other than facilities for projecting the medium? A book doesn't exist out of thin air. The only thing that needs nothing but onesself is the spoken word. Oh yes, which can be recorded on film  [/QB]
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A Film requires Recording equipment and projection technology. A book can be made from any form of paper, parchment, scroll, vellum etc & writing materials and some string or something to bind it.
Once you have made a film you must have projection facilities to even see it, These are usually articles of medium technology which require a fully industrialised nation to manufacture. Whereas a book once printed requires nothing, you may carry it around with you, skip to pages etc.
Also most importantly a film imposes a straight jacket on your imagination, There is no room for interpretation you can only see what they have filmed. Therefore films do not cross the boundaries of culture very well at all, and often fail to capture the imagination because they crush it.
Whereas books Feed the imagination and help to you think and the ideas contained within know no boundaries of culture or race.