For the tape Zuse used discarded 35mm movie film. One of these surviving pieces of film shows binary code punched over the original frames of an interior shot. Whatever meaning and emotion contained in this movie scene are wiped out by this new function as data carrier. In a technological remake of the Oedipal complex, a son murders his father. The iconic code of cinema is discarded in favor of the more efficient binary one.
Cinema becomes a slave to a computer.
But this is not yet the end of the story. Zuse's film with its strange superimposition of the binary over iconic anticipates the convergence that gets underway half a century later. All existing media are translated into numerical data accessible to the computer. In short, media becomes new media. This meeting changes both the identity of media and of computer itself.