# What exactly does Münsterberg claim about parallel action, forward glances/imagination and spectator versus character emotion, what limits does he put on those claims, and which later items in the catalogue touch them?

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For parallel action Münsterberg claims the spectator does not experience intercut scenes as successive ('omnipresence', a chord), yet he himself notes psychologists dispute whether attention divides, and warns that too many changes (170 in ten minutes in one Carmen) produce 'nervous jerking'. For forward glances he claims film can act as imagination acts, and for emotion he separates feelings that mirror the character's from feelings that differ (fear for the unaware child), adding that makers had hardly used the second kind. Later items located touch these only at the edges: cross-cut shots marked as new events in one clip, a suspense model that separates felt from perceived tension, and Kuleshov-type context effects on rated valence. No located item tests flash-forward reception. All are 1916 theory versus second-hand adjacent records.

For parallel action Münsterberg claims the spectator does not experience intercut scenes as successive ('omnipresence', a chord), yet he himself notes psychologists dispute whether attention divides, and warns that too many changes (170 in ten minutes in one Carmen) produce 'nervous jerking'. For forward glances he claims film can act as imagination acts, and for emotion he separates feelings that mirror the character's from feelings that differ (fear for the unaware child), adding that makers had hardly used the second kind. Later items located touch these only at the edges: cross-cut shots marked as new events in one clip, a suspense model that separates felt from perceived tension, and Kuleshov-type context effects on rated valence. No located item tests flash-forward reception. All are 1916 theory versus second-hand adjacent records.

Curator qualifications: Parallel-action omnipresence claim and the Carmen over-cutting warning verified (170 changes in 10 min ≈ 3.5 s/scene).

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "note": "The Photoplay, parallel scenes passages"
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- [sourced_fact] For parallel action Münsterberg claims the spectator does not experience intercut scenes as successive ('omnipresence', a chord), yet he himself notes psychologists dispute whether attention divides, and warns that too many changes (170 in ten minutes in one Carmen) produce 'nervous jerking'. For forward glances he claims film can act as imagination acts, and for emotion he separates feelings that mirror the character's from feelings that differ (fear for the unaware child), adding that makers had hardly used the second kind. Later items located touch these only at the edges: cross-cut shots marked as new events in one clip, a suspense model that separates felt from perceived tension, and Kuleshov-type context effects on rated valence. No located item tests flash-forward reception. All are 1916 theory versus second-hand adjacent records. · locator: The Photoplay, parallel scenes passages · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/15383/pg15383.txt

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