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Overthink
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The Limits of Human Sight Creates Continuity
Early film theor af jean epstein says that it's not the cinematograph, but rather the viewer that transforms discontinuity into continuity. He calls it a ghost amazingly, there's a lot of ghostly reflections in flosilm. But epsin says that it is the limits of human sight that create continuity. For instance, when humans see a row of dots that are really close together, we automatically create a line out of it. And the same happens with a film strip. We create a continuity out of discontinuity when we're viewing it because our brain can't handle seeing image, image of th imag image, image on out of imageand that sounds right to
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