The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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Record Details:

Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
00016
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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DEVELOPMENT OF MOVING PICTURES slow, complete rest from combinations of movements. For the first time the impres- sion of movement was synthetically produced from different elements. For those who fancy that the "new psychology" with its experimental analysis of psychological ex- periences began only in the second half of the nineteenth century or perhaps even with the foundation of the psychological labora- tories, it might be enlightening to study those discussions of the early thirties. The next step leads us much further. In the fall of 1832 Stampfer in Germany and Plateau in France, independent of each other, at the same time designed a device by which pictures of objects in various phases of move- ment give the impression of continued mo- tion. Both secured the effect by cutting fine slits in a black disk in the direction of the radius. When the disk is revolved around its center, these slits pass the eye of the ob- server. If he holds it before a mirror and on the rear side of the disk pictures are drawn corresponding to the various slits, the eye will see one picture after another in rapid succession at the same place. If these little pictures give us the various stages of a move-