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The animation dates from 1944 as part of an experiment called An Experimental Study of Apparent Behavior by psychologists Fritz Heider and Mary-Ann Simmel. Most of us see the video as a story. We see straight past those mobile geometrical shapes into a world of personalities and actions.

An interesting aspect of the video is how difficult it is not to see a story. A basic outline seems to emerge effortlessly from nowhere.

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