video camera provides such an accurate and convincing record of contemporary life that it has become
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Whether the video camera has become a more important form of documentation than written records? The speaker thinks so, for the video camere can provide an more accurate and convincing record of tempotal life. Although I agree that the video recording is superior to written records to some extent, it does not mean that video records could replace written ones in the future as a form of documentation. The speaker overstates the comparative significance of video as a documentary tool.
Compared with written records, video records indeed have played some significant roles in a number of respects. First of all, video cameras are famous for their excellent abilities to document temporal, spatial events and experiences. Remember I once used a video camera to document meteor rain. And now the video recording could "replay" that splendid spectacle. Imagine if I just prepared to write it down in or after that process, how could I recount accurate details and whether the process could objectively recur now in my mind? No matter how keen I was and carefully I watched, I would inevitably miss some details such as the quantity and magnitude...