You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations....
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable the telephone radio and the rest.
