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 #:
00061
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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THE PHOTOPLAY the picture, we must have the same impres- sion as if we looked through a glass plate into a real space. The photoplay is therefore poorly charac- terized if the flatness of the pictorial view is presented as an essential feature. That flat- ness is an objective part of the technical phys- ical arrangements, but not a feature of that which we really see in the performance of the photoplay. We are there in the midst of a three-dimensional world, and the movements of the persons or of the animals or even of the lifeless things, like the streaming of the water in the brook or the movements of the leaves in the wind, strongly maintain our im- mediate impression of depth. Many sec- ondary features characteristic of the motion picture may help. For instance, by a well- known optical illusion the feeling of depth is strengthened if the foreground is at rest and the background moving. Thus the ship pass- ing in front of the motionless background of the harbor by no means suggests depth to the same degree as the picture taken on the gliding ship itself so that the ship appears to be at rest and the harbor itself passing by. 52