[Frameworks] 16mm/Super8 Screening & Panel Discussion @ NYPL Jefferson Market Library

[Dave Tetzlaff]

Cherry-picking a definition from Google will not do for prescriptive lexicopraphy:

> of, relating to, or being a mechanism in which data is represented by continuously variable physical quantities
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analog


A photochemical film frame is an analog reproduction. The density of silver halide particles is an analog of the light intensity striking that part of the frame. Analog reproduction existed before 'signal': phonograph recordings. 

Pip's objection would seem to be that 'analog film' is redundant, and semantically dependent on the opposing term 'digital film' which Pip finds a distorting neologism.

However, "film" HAS come to mean any moving picture production on any medium. Were Matt Whitman to title his event simply "Persistence of Vision: Young Filmmakers" no one would know from the title what was unique about the program. IMHO, promotion of an event sponsored by a Public Library has a responsibility to communicate in terms the general audience of library users will understand.