This is a text about the nature of film: about the nature of moving images, about the viewer's relation to film, and about the kinds of narrative that film is c... » 

This is a text about the nature of film: about the nature of moving images, about the viewer's relation to film, and about the kinds of narrative that film is capable of presenting. The main thesis is that film is a pictorial medium and that the movement of film images is real, not illusory. «