Tag: Frame rate
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The Oldest Footage – London and NY
I love these wonderful films, taking the early films of London and New York and mapping them, and in the London film actually showing what it’s like today. The films date from 1890 – 1920’s, missing is William Friese-Greene whose 4/5 fps film from 1889 is lost. And probably was a con anyway, his systems…
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Audio from silent footage?
I remember Daedulus aka David E. H. Jones, a Mensan (I read his ‘The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes’ as a kid, my mother was a Mensan so she bought it for me) talking about the idea of picking up vibrations from the Ancient Greek plasterers to hear what songs they sung…
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From pig pens to 2001 – slit scan photography
Via the currently very popular Skydive to Pig pen video I was intrigued by the trippy effects as it span down to earth where you get two landscapes at once. Turns out, if the frame rate with the spin rate syncs, however accidentally you get some really odd effects. You can see it in this…