Movement in Films

If you spend time watching movies or

TV, you have probably know that you
see a moving image on the screen, but
that the sense of motion is created by
your brain from a series of static
images.
Typical movies, for example, flash 24 frames per
second. Somehow, the brain takes the changes
from one frame to the next and gives you the
illusion of fluid movement.
 FILM
Film, also called motion
picture or movie is a series of
still photographs on film,
projected in rapid succession
onto a screen by means of
light.
Because of the optical phenomenon known as
persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of
actual, smooth, and continuous movement.
MOTION
the action or process of moving or
changing place or position
So, Why Do Movies Move?
The images from the screen enter the
eye and hit the retina. From there, they
are passed into the brain and ultimately
make their way to
the occipital lobe in
the back of the
brain where most
visual processing
is done.
Initially, the brain
looks for simple
visual features in the
image like the
presence of edges,
because edges
usually signal the
boundaries of
objects.
Early in the processing of
images a particular area
of the brain called area
MT looks for blobs that
have changed position.
When MT sees a blob in
a location that has
changed it position a bit,
it gives a signal
suggesting that there was
motion.
Sustained activity of MT indicating motion in a particular
direction gives people the experience that an object moved.
The blobs could actually change shape or color from one
frame to the next, it is just looking for motion. So, the motion
in movies comes from activity in the brain area MT.