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Burt Fabelman:
Happy things like light from a huge flashlight. But these photographs move past the light really fast. 24 photos in every second. Now, in your brain, each photograph stays for about a 15th of a second. That's called persistence of vision. The photographs move past faster than your brain can let go of them, and that's how the movie projector tricks us into believing that motionless pictures are moving. A motion picture
Happy things like light from a huge flashlight. But these photographs move past the light really fast. 24 photos in every second. Now, in your brain, each photograph stays for about a 15th of a second. That's called persistence of vision. The photographs move past faster than your brain can let go of them, and that's how the movie projector tricks us into believing that motionless pictures are moving. A motion picture
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Happy things like light from a huge flashlight
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But these photographs move past the light really fast
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24 photos in every second
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Now in your brain
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each photograph stays for about a 15th of a second
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That's called persistence of vision
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The photographs move past
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faster than your brain can let go of them
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and that's how the movie projector tricks us
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into believing that motionless pictures are moving
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A motion picture
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Movie Summary
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.
