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I wonder how many frames per second the film is running at it always seems old films don't quite get motion quite right. Look at him walking and the dog too th
by dhughes 14y ago
I wonder how many frames per second the film is running at it always seems old films don't quite get motion quite right.
Look at him walking and the dog too they're walking way too fast very unnatural but really it's not much of a difference I guess.
- abruzzi 14y agoMost silent films from the era were supposed to run at 18fps (that's why we have a preconception of everything moving fast in silent films--years later they were threaded into sound projectors which sped them up to 24 fps.) BUT many cameras of the day were not motor or spring driven, but run by a hand crank. The cameraman would hum a popular tune at the right tempo and try to turn the crank in time with the beats of the music. This meant that there are subtle faster and slower moments. Also, I noticed a couple of tiny jump cuts where a frame or two may have been lost in the original, also munching with the motion. Finally, not motion related, but the old cameras were not great at exposing every frame exactly, causing a flickering that is very noticeable, and may impact your sense of motion.
- corysama 14y agoIf you open the Youtube URL in VLC ("Open network stream") and slow the playback down to 18/24=0.75x, the motion is much more natural throughout the video.