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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