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   XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Mar 1, 2026 at 7:42:33 AM PST, "The True Melissa"   
    wrote:   
      
   > Verily, in article <179267364.794071571.311223.anim8rfsk-   
   > cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this   
   > message:   
   >>  When she says that, on screen, you can actually see   
   >>  the interface running QuickTime movies.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I've read that the screen contents have to be pasted in later, since   
   > glare would prevent them from being filmed. In the early days, when few   
   > people knew anything about computers, they pulled some real boners. I   
   > recall laughter in 1995 because some show had pasted a Mac desktop onto   
   > the screen of an IBM.   
      
   I've always laughed at Hollywood's obsession with inserting bleeps and bloops   
   into every scene where someone's working on a computer to let us know the   
   computer is "thinking".   
      
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