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silent film speed study
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 5:15 pm
by BenModel
I've just uploaded another one of these "deconstructions". This time a scene from Chaplin's "The Immigrant".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJTVjHUD8c4
My YouTube channel for these is
silentfilmspeed
Ben
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:07 pm
by Zoetrope
Great work! Thanks Ben!
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:34 pm
by BenModel
There's more of these at my
YouTube channel.
Ben
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:09 pm
by boblipton
Given Peter Jackson is shooting THE HOBBIT at 48 fps and Nitratevillain Luke McKiernan has a squib today on the history of such high frame rates in his invaluable BIOSCOPE blog....
Bob
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:21 am
by urbanora
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 6:54 pm
by BenModel
The long overdue next segment in my deconstruction of Buster Keaton's "The Goat" is now online.
Click here to watch it on my YouTube channel.
Ben
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 10:08 pm
by mndean
silentfilmmusic wrote:The long overdue next segment in my deconstruction of Buster Keaton's "The Goat" is now online.
Click here to watch it on my YouTube channel.
Ben
I enjoyed the dissections I've watched so far. My only (very) picayune complaint of the one you just linked to was your comment about it being strange the fireman on the steam engine didn't smell Buster's cigarette. I don't find that very unusual, a steam engine under fire smells to high heaven of any number of petrochemicals. Ones sitting cold in a museum aren't even close to odorless.
Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 10:28 am
by BenModel
Thanks for bringing that up. These commentaries are none of them perfect, and actually I've found stuff I'd missed pointed out by fans after I posted some of these. Someone already noticed the fact that the giant "wanted poster" in when first seen is whole, and then in the shot where the workman breaks through you can see that the door has been pre-scored so it'll break through easily.
Ben
Re: silent film speed study
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:30 pm
by All Darc
Well, I supose some historic events recorded on film have wrong film speed and wrong sound speed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUVDmXvXcbk&NR=1" target="_blank
Really, it makes more sense to clear the voice like the video link propose. Also, I think the film speed need to be slower, cause the Hindenburg crashed (explode and down) too fast if we consider it was a really large ship.
The reports, describing how many people scaped, only make sense if the whole thing had not destroyed so fast as in most footages we see.
The link above have the footage runing to fast, I think, despite had corrected the audio speed.
Re: silent film speed study
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 6:34 am
by Jim Roots
When I saw the title of this thread, I expected a cage-match between Richard Roberts and David Shepard.
Jim
Re: silent film speed study
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:32 am
by Jack Theakston
Re: Hindenberg
It may be that the recording was running too slowly, but what they've sped it down to on that video, to my ear, sounds wayyy too slow.
Re: silent film speed study
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:59 am
by rollot24
Jim Roots wrote:When I saw the title of this thread, I expected a cage-match between Richard Roberts and David Shepard.Jim
I'd pay to see that.
Re: silent film speed study
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:54 am
by Rodney
rollot24 wrote:Jim Roots wrote:When I saw the title of this thread, I expected a cage-match between Richard Roberts and David Shepard.Jim
I'd pay to see that.
It wouldn't be fair. Roberts would get in 24 punches for every 20 of Shepard's. Though Shepard would hold out longer... As to whether either would be funnier, that's a matter of taste.
(David Shepard will be at the inaugural Denver Silent Film Festival this weekend, and we're all looking forward to seeing him there!)
Re: silent film speed study
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2011 7:46 pm
by All Darc
There is a way to persuade Richard M Roberts to watch a silent in 12fps.
