We are dealing with a manifestation of a delusion, a kind of hallucination
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Fyodor Otsep was later to be an esteemed film director.
Ferdinand Mount writes in Full Circle (p 363): It took time and technical development for people to 'get their eye in' and look at these moving pictures as f they were a perfectly normal way of perceiving reality, and to accept the conventions - the close-up, the jump cut, the loud swirling music - without a second thought.