That Was Then is a Single Channel Video with the actual audio reporting of the first hours of Operation Desert Storm on CNN. It takes the viewer through the initial bombing stage of Baghdad in 1991 with reporters Peter Arnett, Bernard Shaw, and John Holliman. The live coverage was significant because it was unedited and established CNN as a credible news agency. It also established the notion of 24-hour news as a viable business model. Prince Thomas remembered as a young man watching the CNN footage and thinking, like most Americans, that the footage looked like a video game. It looked hyper-real. He synched this audio with video footage he recorded from a Fourth of July fireworks display to comment on the close link between the past and present.
