From: Tom B Whiteside (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 11:39:54 PDT
Frampton wrote about the black interval in cinema giving the viewer time
to think about the frame just viewed - although it is short, it is an
appreciable length of time for neurological activity. Video is a
continuous light, it is always on - there is no time to think. I believe
he went on to say that cinema created more memorable moments than video,
because of the black interval.
It's somewhere in "Circles of Confusion." Perhaps some young academic
whippersnapper will locate the exact quote (more eloquent than my
paraphrase above, surely) and give the full citation, for extra credit,
thank you very much.
- Whiteside
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Re: how much of what we see is black?
On Oct 30, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Steve Polta wrote:
> Some have suggested that the black spaces allow for
> micro-daydreams, and that this is important to the
> cinematic experience.
Of course, there are no black spaces in digital projection, unless
the filmmaker adds them (using a higher framerate and adding black
frames between each frame, akin to how sequential-image 3D is
projected these days). I wonder how the lack of a black space
changes the viewing experience?
Sounds like an experiment for James Bond to conduct in Chicago.
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