Now you see me

Take a movie on a reel.

Look at each frame individually, one by one.

It will take a while.

How long?

Well, let's do the math: 24 frames x 60 seconds = 1,440 frames make up 1 minute of a movie; let's say the film is mercifully short, say, oh, 80 minutes long: that makes 80 x 1,440 = 115,200 frames.

Divided by 60 (that gives us how many minutes it will take to look at each frame at a rate of 1 frame/second) = 1,885 minutes.

Divided by 60 (to convert to hours) = 31.4 hours.

So if you could keep up that pace for 8 hours a day, it would take you four days to "watch" that movie.

You can see how, at the end of the fourth day, the story might not be anywhere near as vivid and absorbing as if you watched the movie as it was meant to be seen.

24 frames, one/second, vs. 24 frames/second.

A picture book vs. a movie: they're completely different experiences and they affect you in different ways.

Who, looking at a book of pictures, could have predicted or imagined the power and depth and consciousness–altering effects of movies?