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 #:
00075
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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THE PHOTOPLAY the movement in spite of the fact that it is a movement between two end points which could not be discriminated. It is wholly char- acteristic that the experimenter in every field of sensations, visual or acoustical or tactual, often finds himself before the experience of having noticed a movement while he is unable to say in which direction the movement oc- curred. We are familiar with the illusions in which we believe that we see something which only our imagination supplies. If an un- familiar printed word is exposed to our eye for the twentieth part of a second, we readily substitute a familiar word with similar let- ters. Everybody knows how difficult it is to read proofs. We overlook the misprints, that is, we replace the wrong letters which are ac- tually in our field of vision by imaginary right letters which correspond to our expectations. Are we not also familiar with the experience of supplying by our fancy the associative image of a movement when only the starting point and the end point are given, if a skillful suggestion influences our mind. The prestidi- gitator stands on one side of the stage when he apparently throws the costly watch against 66