Gliese 581c, an Earth-like planet discovered in April 2007.The destination of the post-nuclear Earth colony in The Time Travelers (1964 film).A planet featured in the episode of Doctor Who, see List of Doctor Who planets.New Earth ( Doctor Who), an episode of Doctor Who.The current primary Earth in the DC Comics Universe, see Multiverse (DC Comics).New Earth (film) (Dutch: Nieuwe Gronden), 1934 documentary film by Joris Ivens.Star Trek: New Earth, a series of Star Trek: The Original Series novels.'New Earth', the destination planet of Alpha Centauri featured in the sci-fi novel series First Ark to Alpha Centauri by A.A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, a book by Eckhart Tolle.The first name of the planet Aurora in the Foundation universe by Isaac Asimov.(Javanese shadow puppetry has existed since the 900s CE, and does it really get any better than that?) And in each documented culture, there was the presence of average people comprising the audience.
Sure, Cinema is a mere century old, and TV even less so, but storytelling, the basic force behind cinema, has been around in every documented culture of humans ever to roam the earth.
Starting with the laugh track, which created the illusion of an audience, people have tried to connect with each other, to create an audience, ever since. Unlike theater or a concert, where the audience collectively watches something, TV provided isolated entertainment-entertainment that was, in some ways, devoid of an audience. When TV was invented, the way that humans are entertained was changed forever. In this video from the people behind Future of StoryTelling, whose second annual summit of technology and media heavyweights was held last week, Slavin and Kenyatta explain a brief history of the audience in the wake of television, and how a show that spawns 21 million individual posts every month are making use of the today's audience incarnate: However, all these groovy tools focused on one aspect of media: how the individual receives content into their brain (like, in the future, directly.) What about the missing element of cinema that many No Film Schoolers have cited as the best part of the fading theatrical experience: being part of an audience? Two nerds of the highest caliber, Kevin Slavin of the MIT Media Lab, and Kenyatta Cheese of Know Your Meme, have an interesting viewpoint on how looking up hashtags about the Doctor’s TARDIS may actually point you to the real cutting edge technologies of storytelling.
I recently wrote about new technologies that might be reinventing the form of cinema.