The Director sits in an office where there is low light and a record spins quietly on the run-out track. He looks at an old picture, square with a white border, of a couple neither young or old, and he seems a little sad as he does. He is not the man in the picture, however that man may be familiar to us.
There are several ways to make a picture live, he says. It helps to have a lot of them. The more the better. You can take two pictures of the same thing, only moving the camera the distance of one eye to the other. You can look at these pictures and cross your eyes, bringing them together. It does not matter how old the pictures are, you will see them exactly as they where. You can pass light them. It helps. There is a difference between an image that is reflected light from an image that is direct light, pouring light. Do you see what I mean? If you take several pictures and pass them in front of the eye faster than the mind can see, you can make them live. Anything faster than the mind is alive to the mind. The faster, the more alive. (This is called a frame rate.) A small flash, too quick to see, if repeated on a short enough loop, will become perceivable to the mind as something distant, something there but not there. A ghost, perhaps. You cannot be seeing what you are seeing. The eye is not camera. The eye does not record anything. It participates. And you cant participate with the dead, can you? We are getting closer.
At that, the Director swivels in his chair to the phonographic noise looping behind him. It stops for a moment as his finger touches the record and music slowly fades in as he drags it backward.
Its his voice!
"I hope you all enjoy this very special episode. Blessed is the Autarch."
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