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The movie is highly pictorial, but kinematically it is
discontinuous and non-visual, and thus demands
participation. This discontinuous quality has been
very much played up in such movies as The
Seventh Seal and Blow Up , to name only two in a
rapidly developing métier. A movie is a succession
of discrete images which are separated by
extremely small spans of time. Because of their
rapid succession, the images are fused in the
conscious mind and appear connected. Our
relatively recent insights into the power of the
preconscious in both the creation and
apprehension of works of art indicate the
subliminal is in fact a strong force in psychic