COMM ST 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motion Picture Patents Company, Buster Keaton, Movie Palace
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Film provides us with some of the most vivid media memories e. g. if that plane leaves the ground and you"re not with him, you"ll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life . Casablanca: i"m gonna make him an offer he can"t refuse the godfather. Film provides us a giant mirror which reflects our values, cultural ideals, half-truths and appeals to our emotions e. g. anger, disappointment, love. The big screen takes the universal emotions and inflates them. Film influences our conceptions of reality e. g. ideas about romance, marriage proposals, gangsters learn their crafts from movies. Persistence of vision - the visual image is retained on the retina of the eye for a fraction of a second after it appears. Motion pictures are a series of still frames that are present to the eye in rapid succession. Persistence of vision allows images to blend together, creating the illusion of motion.
