In the early 19th century scientists took note of a visual phenomenon: A sequence of individual still pictures, when set in motion, can give the illusion of movement. These scientists attributed this experience to what they called persistence of vision, whereby the eye retains a visual image for a fraction of a second after the source has been removed. The eye’s retention of a visual image, now known as positive afterimage, has long been considered a founding principle of motion pictures, even though its relationship to the perception of motion is still not well understood.

This quotation from Encarta describes one of the motives why motion pictures are so magical. They allow us to “see” the world, the people, the places… A world, people and places that we know. They allow us see our own reality, helping us evolve personally and socially, by analysing it and learning from it.
An aim of this blog is to share and analyse this magical world of movies and, consequently, to share and analyse our own reality.
Let’s do it!