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Wilson’s experiences arose from trying to use film in teaching
natives to read:
The next bit of evidence was very, very interesting. This
man—the sanitary inspector—made a moving picture, in
very slow time, very slow technique, of what would be
required of the ordinary household in a primitive African
village in getting rid of standing water—draining pools,
picking up all empty tins and putting them away, and so
forth. We showed this film to an audience and asked
them what they had seen, and they said they had seen a
chicken, a fowl, and we didn’t know that there was a fowl
in it! So we very carefully scanned the frames one by one
for this fowl, and, sure enough, for about a second, a fowl
went over the corner of the frame. Someone had
frightened the fowl and it had taken flight, through the