The clash of paradigms did not take place in a vacuum, presumably. Was 1897 a time of transition in other ways, beyond journalism?
It was. The cinema was emergent then. Motion pictures were in their novelty year in 1897, according to one leading historian of the cinema. The presidential inauguration of William McKinley in March 1897 was the first to be captured on film. For the first time, a motion picture camera was taken to warthe Greco-Turkish Warin 1897. The automobile was becoming conspicuous in urban America in 1897. The New York Tribune observed at the end of the year that the horseless carriage had apparently come to stay. In Los Angelesthe city that came to be defined by the automobilean early sighting of a horseless carriage was reported in May 1897. This was a four-cylinder, gasoline-powered vehicle that the Los Angeles Times called a motor-cycle. But it clearly was a prototypical automobile, and it made its first trial run a little after 2 a.m. on a Sunday. The newspaper said that time was chosen because the inventor knew that if it were at any less unearthly hour the spectacle would attract a crowd wh
