The photoplay; a psychological study (1916)

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CHAPTEE IV ATTBNTIOir The mere perception of the men and women and of the background, with all their depth and their motion, furnishes only the material. The scene which keeps our interest alive cer- tainly involves much more than the simple impression of moving and distant objects. We must accompany those sights with a wealth of ideas. They must have a meaning for us, they must be enriched by our own imagination, they must awaken the remnants of earlier experiences, they must stir up our feelings and emotions, they must play on our suggestibility, they must start ideas and thoughts, they must be linked in our mind with the contiuuous chain of the play, and they must draw our attention constantly to the important and essential element of the ac- tion. An abundance of such inner processes 72