film as art
by still being read, the little treatise seems to prove that in spite of all the changes that have taken place in their form, content and function, films are still most genuinly effective when they rely on the basic properties of the visual medium.
illusion
... in film or theatre, so long as the essentials of any event are shown, the illusion takes place
patterns of light
... we can perceive objects and events as living and at the same time imaginary, as real objects and as simple patterns of light on the projection screen, and it is this fact that makes film art possible.
frames of reference
it is one of the most important formal qualities of film that every object that is reproduced appears simultaneously in two entirely different frames of reference, namely the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, and that as one identical object it fulfills two different functions in the two contexts.
principles of montage
film technique
narrative implication(s)
composition
composition, ..., relates the representational and interactive meanings of the picture to eachother, through three interrelated systems.
representation(s)
information value
scientific context
societal context
