Another facet of the sheer quantity of data possible in a 
movie shot is exemplified in historical films like Henry V  or 
Richard III . Here extensive research went into the making of the 
sets and costumes that any six-year-old can now enjoy as 
readily as any adult. T. S. Eliot reported how, in the making of 
the film of his Murder in the Cathedral , it was not only 
necessary to have costumes of the period, but—so great is the 
precision and tyranny of the camera eye—these costumes had 
to be woven by the same techniques as those used in the 
twelfth century. Hollywood, amidst much illusion, had also to 
provide authentic scholarly replicas of many past scenes. The 
stage and TV can make do with very rough approximations, 
because they offer an image of low definition that evades 
detailed scrutiny.

     At first, however, it was the detailed realism of writers like