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At 10 00 A.M., however, my illusions cmmbled. In preference to my film, 2,000 psychiatrists chose to crowd into a hall across the street, where Rennie Davis was mesmerizing diem with his self-assured critique of government policies in Vietnam. Rennie was one of the illustrious Chicago 7 who were lifted to temporary national stardom by their leadership of antiwar protests. 

What illusions does Renoir s film La Grande Illusion refer to Discuss those illusions and how the historic events that led to World War I helped foster them. 

When this gratuitously titled machinery is set into rotary motion, the striped and displaced circles appear to undulate. This movement produces a hypnotic illusion of pulsating depth, or what Robert Lebel poetically called a screen for suggestive metamorphosis. Fascinated by this quirky optical experiment, Duchamp (especially in 1926) created a number of substitute disks decorated with either spiral-linear and colored patterns, many of which included similarly inscribed onomatopoetically, pseudo-emblematic patterns (see MD-125, MD-126, MD-135, MD-139). These motorized illusionistic doodles continued in production, culminating eventually in 1935, with the editions of some 1500, flat cardboard disks, collectively called the Rotoreliefs (MD-144). Another approach in this direction of rotary symbolism was represented in the 1926 film Anemic Cinema (MD-140), where spirals alternate with puns inscribed within slowly turning disks. ... 

A model of the structure must be fit to the map. This used to be done with the "Richards box", a device containing a half-silvered mirror to give the illusion of superposition of a physical model and the electron density map (conventionally contoured in serial sections, traced onto transparent film, and stacked (17).) Recently, some protein structures have been determined using interactive computer graphics to fit a stick model of a structure to an electron density map (18, 19). 

Motion pictures, also called film, cinema or movies, are a series of images, recorded on strips of film, that create the illusion of continuous motion. A series of rapidly shown images appear to move because of a phenomena called ihe, persistence of vision. The eye does not react instantly to changes in its field of vision. In fact, the eye continues to see an image for 1/10- 1/20 of a second after it changes. So if a sequence of images can be shown at a rate of approximately 20 per second, it will appear as continuous motion to the eye. That is Just what happens in a motion picture. 

Are the characteristics of the short film variations of those of the long film In most cases, no. It is true that the two forms rely on visual action for exposition and characterization, as well as on the illusion of reality inherent in the use of film as a visual medium. Beyond these two characteristics, however, the short film proceeds in both a simpler, and a potentially freer, manner. 

In the short film, the notion that you are watching a documentary is even more critical than in the long film. Consequently, the deployment of journalistic techniques, from camera style to on or off-air narration, is critical. In fact, the first narrative responsibility of the writer is to create at least the illusion that what we are watching are real people at real work or leisure. A candid quality, even the sense of "eavesdropping," should inform the writing and the style of performance. This "spontaneity" immediately establishes veracity and seriousness, upon which the writer-director will draw. What is being captured is not so much an enactment as the real thing. This is the central style of the docudrama. It is the primary and foremost key to the success of the docudrama. 

Films are made to capture the imagination of the audience. Illusion is the essence of fiction film, and yet filmmakers mostly try hard to create plausible plots and representations, to render their products authentic in order to have impact on the public. Just a little more than a quarter of all chemistry movies are depicted as non-authentic, only about a fifth are comedies and satires. A look at The Nutty Professor shows that not even these are just funny. 

The illusion that film performs, when it s powerful, is it gets people to confuse the experience of the film with the experience of the past—to get audiences to almost unconsciously confuse the aesthetic experience the/re having as the film unfolds with their imagination of what it must have been like to be there in the past. In a way, I think that for historical documentary filmmakers, that s the way you animate the... 

Before the development of computer-generated special effects, filmmakers used inventive techniques to create illusions. In the 1895 film The Execution of Mary Queen of Scots, the camera was stopped, the actress playing Mary ran off-screen and was replaced with a dummy, and the other actors froze in position. Then, the camera was restarted and the guillotine fell to behead Mary. 

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