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answer is “Yes,” only it would then no longer be a cartoon. Nor
would “improved” TV be television. The TV image is now a
mosaic mesh of light and dark spots which a movie shot never
is, even when the quality of the movie image is very poor.
As in any other mosaic, the third dimension is alien to TV,
but it can be superimposed. In TV the illusion of the third
dimension is provided slightly by the stage sets in the studio;
but the TV image itself is a flat two-dimensional mosaic. Most
of the three-dimensional illusion is a carry-over of habitual
viewing of film and photo. For the TV camera does not have a
built-in angle of vision like the movie camera. Eastman Kodak
now has a two-dimensional camera that can match the flat
effects of the TV camera. Yet it is hard for literate people, with
their habit of fixed points of view and three-dimensional vision,
to understand the properties of two-dimensional vision. If it