You often pass a thing that is motionless without notice, but if it
moves it attracts your attention. While walking down the city street
you pay little attention to the show windows, but if there is something
moving in one you will stop to notice it. The sidewalk will even be
blocked by the simple motion of some thing in the display. This is the
use of motion to impel your attention. If you are in a crowd and see
a friend whose attention you wish to attract, you wave your hand or
handkerchief. Children like to see "the wheels go 'round," and we never
lose the fascination which motion has for us. A person lacking in the
power of concentration will fix his closest attention upon the moving
picture or object.
Just as the motion picture is more attractive than the old style
stereopticon, so motion introduced into the visual pictures for memory
purposes will increase the impression upon the brain and increase your
ability to recall it.
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To still further strengthen the impression of the House, see it in
motion instead of standing still. See it on wheels moving down the
street or blown from the foundation by a strong wind. The farther you
see the object move, or the more rapid the motion, the stronger the
impression.