The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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 #:
00054
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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DEPTH AND MOVEMENT ical laws of sound. "We must proceed to the psychology and ask for the mental processes of the hearing of tones and of chords, of har- monies and disharmonies, of tone qualities and tone intensities, of rhythms and phrases, and must trace how these elements are com- bined in the melodies and compositions. In this way we turn to the photoplay, at first with a purely psychological interest, and ask for the elementary excitements of the mind which enter into our experience of the mov- ing pictures. We now disregard entirely the idea of the theater performance. "We should block our way if we were to start from the theater and were to ask how much is left out in the mere photographic substitute. We ap- proach the art of the film theater as if it stood entirely on its own ground, and extin- guish all memory of the world of actors. We analyze the mental processes which this specific form of artistic endeavor produces in us. To begin at the beginning, the photoplay consists of a series of flat pictures in contrast to the plastic objects of the real world which surrounds us. But we may stop at once: what does it mean to say that the surround- 45