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frame—they had inspected the frame for details. Then we
found out from the artist and an eye specialist that a
sophisticated audience, an audience that is accustomed
to the film, focuses a little way in front of the flat screen
so that you take in the whole frame. In this sense, again,
a picture is a convention. You’ve got to look at the
picture as a whole first, and these people did not do that,
not being accustomed to pictures. When presented with
the picture they began to inspect it, rather as the
scanner of a television camera, and go over it very rapidly.
Apparently, that is what the eye unaccustomed to
pictures does—scans the picture—and they hadn’t
scanned one picture before it moved on, in spite of the
slow technique of the film.
The key facts are at the end of the passage. Literacy