>>Morgan Spurlock: Video cameras came out.
Everybody could have a video camera.
Those are the Super 8 movies that I used to
shoot at my house, on my dad's camera where
you couldn't really edit them together.
You had to kinda shoot them in order, and
you had to shoot one shot, then change the
next shot and nothing ever worked, but it
was so exciting and so fun to do.
You would blow them up, and you would project
them in your house.
There was no sound, so you had to kind of
act them out as they were going along.
Suddenly now there was audio, there was like
picture, we could make even worse looking
movies in video.
For me that was a real transition because
now I could actually tell stories.
I could actually edit them doing tape-to-tape
editing, you could actually start to create
these brand new images.
For me that was a great journey that then
suddenly really came to fruition.
Something really changed in 2000, which was
the democratization of cinema.
Because now suddenly these little hand-held
cameras that you and I could buy were now
suddenly of a good enough quality to where
you could blow it up to 35-millimeter and
it would look just as good as a film print.
A little scratchy, maybe 16-millimeter, looked
like.
Had a little edge, had a fringe to it.
But you still now, anyone with a camera and
a computer and a good idea could make a movie.
The democratization of cinema.
It was that that enabled me to make my first
film.
When I made Super Size Me that enabled me
to make this film that we made for $65,000
that we took to Sundance that we sold all
around the world.
You know literally it was because suddenly
I had access to something nobody else had
access to or most people didn't have access
to for so long.
Usually you want to make a movie, it was so
expensive to get a 35-millimeter camera, so
expensive to get a 16-millimeter camera.
And now anyone can do it.
