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 #:
00069
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 eye and in wMch accordingly no new stimulus reaches the nerves. The routine explanation of the appearance of movement was accord- ingly : that every picture of a particular posi- tion left in the eye an afterimage until the next picture with the slightly changed posi- tion of the jumping animal or of the march- ing men was in sight, and the afterimage of this again lasted until the third came. The afterimages were responsible for the fact that no interruptions were noticeable,' while the movement itself resulted simply from the passing of one position into another. What else is the perception of movement but the seeing of a long series of different positions ? If instead of looking through the zootrope we watch a real trotting horse on a real street, we see its whole body in ever new progressing positions and its legs in all phases of motion; and this continuous series is our perception of the movement itself. This seems very simple. Yet it was slow- ly discovered that the explanation is far too simple and that it does not in the least do justice to the true experiences. With the ad- vance of modem laboratory psychology the experimental investigations frequently 60