The Photoplay: A Psychological Study (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Hugo Munsterberg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 133033373X ISBN 13: 9781330333730

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Photoplay: A Psychological Study

It is arbitrary to say where the develop ment of the moving pictures began and it is impossible to foresee where it will lead. What invention marked the beginning? Was it the first device to introduce movement into the pictures on a screen? Or did the develop ment begin with the first photographing of various phases of moving objects? Or did it Start with the first presentation of suc cessive pictures at such a speed that the im pression of movement resulted? Or was the birthday of the new art when the experiment ers for the first time succeeded in projecting such rapidly passing pictures on a wall? If we think of the moving pictures as a source Of entertainment and esthetic enjoyment, we may see the germ in that camera Obscurawhich anémfea the glass slide to pass before another and thus showed the railway train on one Slide moving over the bridge on the other glass plate. They were popular half a century ago. On the other hand if the essential feature of the moving pictures is the combination of various 'views into one connected impression, we must look back to the days of the phenakistoscope which had scientific interest only; it is more than eighty years Since it was invented. In America, which in most recent times has become the classical land of the moving picture produc tion, the history may be said to begin with the days of the Chicago Exposition, 1893, when Edison exhibited his kinetoscope. The visitor dropped his nickel into a Slot, the lit tle motor started, and for half a minute he saw through the magnifying glass a girl danc ing or some street boys fighting. Less than a quarter of a century later twenty thousand theaters for moving pictures are open daily in the United States and the millions get for their nickel long hours of enjoyment. In Edison's small box into which only one at a time could peep through the hole, nothing but a few trite scenes were exhibited. In those.

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"Hugo MUnsterberg" (1863-1916) was a professor of psychology at Harvard University. He was widely known for his work in the fields of the applications of psychology to law, business, industry, medicine, teaching, and sociology. He was also a leader in the field of behaviorism for his work, which defines attention in terms of the openness of the nerve paths to the muscles of adjustment. In 1898 he was elected president of the American Psychological Association. Among his works are "Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, Psychotherapy, On the Witness Stand, Psychology and Crime", and "The Eternal Values".

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 133033373X
• ISBN 13: 9781330333730
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 241