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Masculin Féminin (1966): We are the youth gone wild!

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It must be said that I fell asleep watching this film four times…fifth time was the charm.

Masculin Féminin could be described as Godard’s answer to Larry Clark’s Kids. It’s a portrait of 60’s youth, sex, pop culture*, and politics wrapped up in a gorgeous little black and white package. It’s super tame compared to today’s standards but at the time it was considered pretty provocative. The soundtrack is lovely featuring Yé-Yé music mostly performed by the lead actress Chantal Goya. Like I said, I fell sleep watching this film so it’s not my fav Godard; But it can’t be denied that the man has a incredible eye.

* “This film could be called The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola.” (titling shown in film)

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World’s First Digital Camera (1975): Created by Kodak’s engineer Steve Sasson

In December 1975, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented something that would, decades later, revolutionize photography: the world’s first digital camera. It was the size of a toaster, and captured black and white images at a resolution of 100×100 - or 0.01 megapixels in today’s marketing terminology. The images were stored on cassette tape, taking 23 seconds to write. The camera uses an ADC from Motorola, a bog-standard (for the 1970s) lens from a Kodak movie camera, and a CCD chip from Fairchild Semiconductor - the same technology that digital cameras still use today. To playback the images, a special computer and tape reader setup (pictured below) was built, outputting the grainy images on a standard TV. It took a further 23 seconds to read each image from tape.

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