Offhand, this brings to mind the Vocoder. A reasonable facsimile of fluent speech could be be produced just from the bandwidth of a skilled typist operating a

Offhand, this brings to mind the Vocoder. A reasonable facsimile of fluent speech could be be produced just from the bandwidth of a skilled typist operating a keyboard. What's encoded is not the audio - even the best audio codecs need on the order of 4kbits/sec to encode legible speech - but the actual semantics on how voice is produced. Suppose you want to do this for movies. 8 kilobytes doesn't sound like enough, though the script of the movie could easily be compressed to that. But it's posible to imagine a system into which all the skill of the cinematographer, director, script writer, actors, etc. are built, with from 8 kilobytes of instructions could create, perhaps not the original movie, but something comparable. Is this doable? Does some random crank have the remotest chance of pulling this off with the technology of the day? No. But that's likely the line of reasoning employed.