The movie is a hot, high-definition medium. Perhaps the most 
interesting observation of the hotel proprietor was that the 
tourists wanted to see Perry Mason and Wyatt Earp. They did 
not want to see Raymond Burr and Hugh O’Brian. The old 
movie-fan tourists had wanted to see their favorites as they 
were in real  life, not as they were in their film roles. The fans of 
the cool TV medium want to see their star in role , whereas the 
movie fans want the real thing .

     A similar reversal of attitudes occurred with the printed 
book. There was little interest in the private lives of authors 
under manuscript or scribal culture. Today the comic strip is 
close to the preprint woodcut and manuscript form of 
expression. Walt Kelly’s Pogo  looks very much indeed like a 
gothic page. Yet in spite of great public interest in the comic-
strip form, there is as little curiosity about the private lives of