It’s not as if the source material’s got a steady frame rate, there’s a lot of places where it jumps about 2-4 frames. Which is quite possibly due to lapses in

It’s not as if the source material’s got a steady frame rate, there’s a lot of places where it jumps about 2-4 frames. Which is quite possibly due to lapses in the hand-cranking of the film through the camera back in 1896, or maybe due to frames getting lost when the printed reel of film got damaged and spliced in the hundred and twenty-odd years between then and now. Possibly both, one could probably work out some of the cranking speed variations by looking at how the train’s frame-to-frame motions change, at least until it’s come to a stop.