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Happy things like light from a huge flashlightBut these photographs move past the light really fast24 photos in every secondNow in your braineach photograph stays for about a 15th of a secondThat's
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The Fabelmans

Happy things like light from a huge flashlight. But these photographs move past the light...

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

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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
Available in 9 languages
Duration
27 seconds
Views
232
Timestamp in Movie
00:01:33
Uploaded
Mar 16, 2026
Genres
Production
Amblin Entertainment,Reliance Entertainment

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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.

Actors

Paul Dano
Burt Fabelman