Visual perception

Series: Horizons of Science Series

Duration: 10:00

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1959

Creator: ETS

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Dr. Hadley Cantril discusses his investigations at the Perception Demonstration Center at Princeton University of the effects of some of our assumptions on what we see. Shows a distorted room that looks normal, with illustrations that include a rotating trapezoid that appears to oscillate, balloons that seem to move when in reality they are being inflated and deflated, or illuminated and darkened. Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film SummaryPresents a di./ia metadata visualpercept to be when carefully laid out to be something else.A photographic study of a variety of water birds. Explains how nature has adapted the birds to meet the problems of survival., A: Access CP: Composite Positive B: 800' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm B&W and Colour Sound 1000 Robert M. Young Director: Robert M. Young Educational Testing Service


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AV Geeks Archive, Library of Congress, University of Maryland 16mm


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