Shanken (256-290)

The reading in the section about Brenda Laural discussing the the six elements and the casual relations among them was interesting because it brought up a important point about films and plays (259). For example in this section it states that plays are powerful but they can only engage sight and sound but not touch, smell, and taste. David Belasco who used bacon which although was a good experiment underestimates the power of smell. I immediately thought people would start to get hungry once they located the bacon with their nose which would cause them to leave and eat some food. I could only imagine the opposite where a bad smell would present itself which could also get people out of their seats. Another idea that was brought up was that the Sensorama's problem was that people didn't know what to do with it. It's like when film started using 3d it's nice and all but people just don't know what to do with it and the next thing you know 4d films will be making an appearance. This sort of reminds me of what happened with the Blu-ray concept. Blu-ray didn't catch on for quite a while because people just didn't know what to do with it plus a Blu-ray player was required. Now it seems that all everyone wants are Blu-ray movies with 1080p high definition quality.