Pictures that fool your eyes
Do you know that a \”movie” doesn’t really move? Your eyes make it look
as if it’s moving!
A movie is made with a camera that takes pictures very
fast—twenty-four pictures in a second. Each picture is just like a
picture taken by an ordinary camera. If a running dog is in the movie,
the camera takes a \”still” picture of each of the dog’s movements.
When the pictures are developed, they are all in a row on a long strip
of film. Because the pictures were taken so quickly, each one shows only
a few tiny differences from the picture before it.
The film is shown with a projector (pruh [jehk]{.smallcaps} tuhr)—a
machine that shines light through the film and onto a screen. Every
second, twenty-four pictures flash in front of you. The pictures change
so rapidly that you can’t possibly see each one by itself or notice the
tiny differences. So your eyes blend the pictures into a single picture
that \”moves.”
Cartoons fool your eyes in the same way other movies do. Each picture in
the cartoon is drawn and colored by hand. To make the movie, the
pictures are photographed in order. In each picture, the characters are
standing or moving just a little differently
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Each picture, or frame, in this strip of film shows the characters in
slightly different positions. When the cartoon is shown on a screen, the
pictures flash by very rapidly and the characters seem to move.
than in the one before it. So, when the cartoon is shown, you see the
characters \”move” as if they were real.
