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 #:
00078
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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DEPTH AND MOVEMENT the impression of motion is surely more than the mere perception of successive phases of movement. The movement is in these cases not really seen from without, but is super- added, by the action of the mind, to motion- less pictures. The statement that our impression of movement does not result simply from the seeing of successive stages but includes a higher mental act into which the successive visual impressions enter merely as factors is in itself not really an explanation. We have not settled by it the nature of that higher cen- tral process. But it is enough for us to see that the impression of the continuity of tha motion results from a complex mental proc- ess by which the various pictures are held together in the unity of a higher act. Noth- ing can characterize the situation more clear- ly than the fact which has been demonstrated by many experiments, namely, that this feel- ing of movement is in no way interfered with by the distinct consciousness that important phases of the movement are lacking. On the contrary, under certain circumstances we be- come still more fully aware of this apparent motion created by our inner activity when we 69