The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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Title:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Date:
1916
Publisher:
New York [etc.] D. Appleton and company
Volume:
The photoplay; a psychological study
Leaf #:
00018
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Cornell University Library
Sponsor:
MSN
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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DEVELOPMENT OF MOVING PICTURES main on the same spot. The second brought the slits nearer together; then the pictures necessarily produced an effect as if the man were really moviag forward while he per- formed his tricks. In the third set the slits were further distant from one another than the pictures, and the result was that the pic- ture moved backward. The scientific principle which controls the moving picture world of today was estab- lished with these early devices. Isolated pic- tures presented to the eye in rapid succession but separated by interruptions are perceived not as single impressions of different posi- tions, but as a continuous movement. But the pictures of movements used so far were drawn by the pen of the artist. Life showed to him everywhere continuous movements; his imagination had to resolve them into va- rious instantaneous positions. He drew the horse race for the zootrope, but while the, horses moved forward, nobody was able to say whether the various pictures of their legs really corresponded to the stages of the ac- tual movements. Thus a true development of the stroboscopic effects appeared depend- ent upon the fixation of the successive 9