Abstract

This video, based on a text that has since been withdrawn from the project, drew me to the image of RKO’s famous vanity plate, a transmitting tower perched atop a globe. Divorced from individual creative intent, the vanity plate is a reassuringly constant element of cinemagoing experience, but nevertheless is an authored media that carries its own meaning. Therefore, I wanted to move the vanity plate from its usual ignored spot at the start of a film and place it centre-stage, as well as in a historical continuity with early movie audiences.

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