September 2, 2005
No Longer Home Movies
The most famous motion-picture credit of the last century belongs not to a brilliant Hollywood director or a heroic newsreel cameraman, but to a rank amateur who could barely hold steady his 8-millimeter camera but who, on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST, in Dallas, happened to be standing at the right intersection for a collision with history.
Abraham Zapruder's home movie of the Kennedy assassination is the supreme example of the serendipitous transformation of ordinary imagery
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