# Which subjects does Lutz (1920, ch. XI) say suit animated drawings rather than live photography, and what reason does he give for each?

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Lutz proposes animated drawings for subjects where the camera cannot show the thing: the heart and circulation, muscle action, the skeleton's levers, evolution as a tree; for machinery in operation, where a drawing replaces a static plan; and for change over time, such as changing maps. His reasons are (a) the camera cannot photograph some details, (b) the eye grasps a moving drawing in moments that paragraphs would take to explain, (c) a trained draughtsman can draw it, and (d) for maps and evolution, the subject is itself a change of a diagram. He keeps live photography for experimental apparatus and for physiological subjects where scientific moving pictures exist, and his art-method films film a demonstrator rather than animate. He does not name invisible, slow or microscopic phenomena as such (bounded scan of chapter XI).

Lutz proposes animated drawings for subjects where the camera cannot show the thing: the heart and circulation, muscle action, the skeleton's levers, evolution as a tree; for machinery in operation, where a drawing replaces a static plan; and for change over time, such as changing maps. His reasons are (a) the camera cannot photograph some details, (b) the eye grasps a moving drawing in moments that paragraphs would take to explain, (c) a trained draughtsman can draw it, and (d) for maps and evolution, the subject is itself a change of a diagram. He keeps live photography for experimental apparatus and for physiological subjects where scientific moving pictures exist, and his art-method films film a demonstrator rather than animate. He does not name invisible, slow or microscopic phenomena as such (bounded scan of chapter XI).

Curator qualifications: Subject-suitability reasons (camera cannot show it; diagram changes).

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- [sourced_fact] Lutz proposes animated drawings for subjects where the camera cannot show the thing: the heart and circulation, muscle action, the skeleton's levers, evolution as a tree; for machinery in operation, where a drawing replaces a static plan; and for change over time, such as changing maps. His reasons are (a) the camera cannot photograph some details, (b) the eye grasps a moving drawing in moments that paragraphs would take to explain, (c) a trained draughtsman can draw it, and (d) for maps and evolution, the subject is itself a change of a diagram. He keeps live photography for experimental apparatus and for physiological subjects where scientific moving pictures exist, and his art-method films film a demonstrator rather than animate. He does not name invisible, slow or microscopic phenomena as such (bounded scan of chapter XI). · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73455/pg73455.txt

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