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Letter: Say what's real

Published 5 January 2005

From Easter Russell

I would like to join a campaign, if someone else would start it, to make sure that TV and film documentary makers clearly differentiate for us what is real and what is computer generated. I am thinking of, for instance, images of deep space, or deep sea, or of inside the body, where I can’t always tell. A little sign in the corner would do, as there is in reconstructions, saying “simulated”, or “computer generated”. Any takers?

London, UK

Issue no. 2481 published 8 January 2005

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