The drone industry’s birthplace was Hollywood, born under the sign of pretense

Evidence

The girl who posed there, holding a drone propeller, was still called Norma Jeane Dougherty. She was immortalized by a photographer who had come to report on the Radioplane Company, founded in Los Angeles by Reginald Denny, a movie actor who had turned to aeromodelism. That was how the girl who was then still an ordinary worker but was to become Marilyn Monroe was discovered. The drone was born partly in Hollywood and thus, necessarily, under the sign of pretense. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 145

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the drone’s origins in Hollywood pretense and the discovery of Marilyn Monroe as a factory worker producing weapon parts.