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This here's the future. Videotape tells the truth.
— Floyd Gondoli ‧ Boogie Nights
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker declares that recorded video is what's coming next, and insists that footage can be trusted to show what really happened. There is bold confidence in the pitch, a belief that a new technology will settle questions that spoken accounts never could.
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