I wonder if this has something to do with the way our brain handles ocular saccades. ( The rapid eye movement we go through when scanning a room, changing the d

I wonder if this has something to do with the way our brain handles ocular saccades. ( The rapid eye movement we go through when scanning a room, changing the direction of our gaze. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade) The brain 'cuts out' our conscious vision during these rapid eye movements. just look around the room at several different objects quickly by moving only your eyes. You will discover an almost complete lack of visual information between points A and B. You would expect to see a blur of movement for a fraction of a second while your eye moves to the new target, but your brain edits this out. It seems at if a cut during a film could be roughly equivalent - I wonder if some of the information directly preceding or following the hard cut gets edited out by your head becasue it perceives it as a visual anomaly or artifact, much the same as during a saccade? To another point in the article- edits in film aren't (or shouldn't be) used primarily to keep the viewers interest. During a narrative, a cut should is made to bring context or to move the story forward. This was the way editing was first introduced in fact. Cutting for cutting's sake isn't generally considered good editing.