The Cinematic Footprint

Film has often been used to represent the natural landscape and to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even the green images shown on screens are ecologically unsustainable production and distribution processes. Noting that celluloid is often composed of petroleum by-products, The Cinematic Footprint traces the history of how the ï¿¿hydrocarbon imaginationï¿¿ has been central to the development of film as a medium.