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Watching TV/movies is definitely something that we learn to do, though most of us learned so early that we no longer remember it.

Source: anecdotal evidence from friends/relatives who observed childrens' reactions when first exposed to TV/movies when they were relatively old.

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The article mentions an experiment where they showed short movies with local actors to people in a village in Turkey who had never seen movies or television. They found that people processed the cuts with no issues.

Yeah, it's likely that the state of the visual cortex suffers a hard reset on the cut, but we integrate our experience at a higher level (semantic, not pure visual). It's the higher level that dictates our overall response. It might be one of the reasons why we possess intelligence and awareness.

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