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330 AMATEUR MOVIE MAKING
upon extremely rapid, exactly coordinated action. This is something which must be learned slowly for as the eye is unable to follow the details of the action, only repeated trial and error will bring proficiency. But when the slow motion camera presents the analysis of the action to the eye, one can become proficient in these actions almost immediately. The use of such motion analysis films for teaching purposes has proven surprisingly successful.
Let us consider the aesthetic dancer. Most of her movements cannot be slowed down for purposes of demonstration because they are rendered possible only by reason of the speed which overcomes gravity. The dancing instructor can only repeat the motion time after time with the student vaguely trying to imitate her. In this case the slow motion camera makes each individual muscular contraction plainly apparent, and the student finds his task far easier than ever before. Not only is this true, but the same method of analysis will enable the dancer, herself, to recognize and eliminate the subtle points of poor technique which have crept in to mar her work.
In fencing the slow motion camera is a boon indeed. The greatest charm of fencing is the flash and flicker of the blade, and even the master loses his lightness and grace of movement when he tries to make a thrust slowly in order to show the student the proper method.
In fact all such sports and activities may be made doubly interesting by the judicious use of the motion picture camera. But even so, this does not complete the roster of sports which lend themselves to motion photography.
The field sports, fishing, hunting, shooting, riding, racing— all of them bring repeated pleasure by being projected time after time. It is true that in these cases the film is rarely more than a record of the event itself, but this is sufficient. In all athletics and most artificial sport there is a sense of health-building, or duty and of physical exertion, a sense of the material and of the gross. Of all the artificial sports perhaps only fencing and dancing are free of this shadow. But the field sports ! What a difference there is ! There mankind knows the pure unadulterated peace of perfect content. There is no thought of