however, like the print and the photo, movies assume a high 
level of literacy in their users and prove baffling to the 
nonliterate. Our literate acceptance of the mere movement of 
the camera eye as it follows or drops a figure from view is not 
acceptable to an African film audience. If somebody disappears 
off the side of the film, the African wants to know what 
happened to him. A literate audience, however, accustomed to 
following printed imagery line by line without questioning the 
logic of lineality, will accept film sequence without protest.

     It was René Clair who pointed out that if two or three 
people were together on a stage, the dramatist must 
ceaselessly motivate or explain their being there at all. But the 
film audience, like the book reader, accepts mere sequence as 
rational. Whatever the camera turns to, the audience accepts. 
We are transported to another world. As René Clair observed,