nted piece of glass one thousand times a second; so fast that our eyes pick it up not as a bunch of lines tracing across a screen, but as a whole image. It is possible to see this happing when a video camera is pointed at a TV screen, since the video camera updates at a faster rate then our eye to our brain does. Although we cant see it flickering, it is like the candle in the middle of a dark room that no one can take their eyes off of. This brings up the point that when a child who has been raised on TV reaches the age of ten or so has the dendrite melting enzyme released into the brain, all that they have experienced is low-fi sound and a flickering visual. This may pose a problem later down the line. A.D.D. A.D.H.D. These are both common terms that are thrown around constantly now. Every child seems to have it. Every child needs Ritalin or something to make this seemingly rampant disorder calm itself. A key suspect in the A.D.D. generation game could lie in the changes that entertainment has gone through in the past few years. Pong has turned into a mile-a-minute shoot em up game. Scooby Doo has turned into a blazingly fast cops and robbers cartoon. Everything is extremely fast paced. When the mind is exposed to fast paced lifestyles (i.e. Modern American) or stimuli, compensation occurs. This compensation, called the saturation effect, makes the brain require that amount of stimulus constantly or boredom and lack of concentration could result. A comparative study was done on two Hanna Barbara cartoons: Scooby Doo (1969) and The Power Puff Girls (1998). The goal was to find out how much, if any, cartoons have sped up.Just testing three clips of each, the results were amazing. Every time, the Power Puff Girls had almost double the amount of cuts per action scene. When comparing the two right next to each other, the difference is extremely noticeable. So with this holding true, it may be a fair (or close to fair) assumption to make t...
