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>>Morgan Spurlock: Video cameras came out. Everybody could have a video camera. Those
are the Super 8 movies that I used to shoot at my house, on my dad's camera where you
couldn't really edit them together. You had to kinda shoot them in order, and you had
to shoot one shot, then change the next shot and nothing ever worked, but it was so exciting
and so fun to do. You would blow them up, and you would project
them in your house. There was no sound, so you had to kind of act them out as they were
going along. Suddenly now there was audio, there was like picture, we could make even
worse looking movies in video. For me that was a real transition because now I could
actually tell stories. I could actually edit them doing tape-to-tape editing, you could
actually start to create these brand new images. For me that was a great journey that then
suddenly really came to fruition. Something really changed in 2000, which was the democratization
of cinema. Because now suddenly these little hand-held cameras that you and I could buy
were now suddenly of a good enough quality to where you could blow it up to 35-millimeter
and it would look just as good as a film print. A little scratchy, maybe 16-millimeter, looked
like. Had a little edge, had a fringe to it. But you still now, anyone with a camera and
a computer and a good idea could make a movie. The democratization of cinema. It was that
that enabled me to make my first film. When I made Super Size Me that enabled me to make
this film that we made for $65,000 that we took to Sundance that we sold all around the
world. You know literally it was because suddenly I had access to something nobody else had
access to or most people didn't have access to for so long. Usually you want to make a
movie, it was so expensive to get a 35-millimeter camera, so expensive to get a 16-millimeter
camera. And now anyone can do it.