He exposed frames of film in two places a wealthy resort community in Florida and a poor Indian reservation in South Dakota and then put his camera through an airport X-ray machine.
The camera was able to film shots at 1, 000 frames per second, slowing shots by as much as 40 times their original speed.
One major aspect of the visual style of this film is the much-debated 48 frames per second.
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The frames are closer together on the film and about a third larger than those found on today's reels.
He has shot more than 100, 000 frames on his Bronica cameras, on film with standard lenses.
The 3D film has been shot at a rate of 48 frames per second, compared with the industry standard of 24 frames.
The continuing power of the Lost Cause romance can even be seen in a more recent film such as Gettysburg, which in the ending frames shows the fate of the various major characters.
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Since film is 24fps, 1080i%uFFFDs 30 fps is more than enough to capture all the frames.
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If all goes well, the Curiosity spacecraft will film the last two or three miles of its descent in high-definition video at five frames a second, recording for the first time an actual landing on another planet.
In fact, there's no known upper limit since the human eye sees a continuous stream of movement, not individual frames. 60 fps was tried in the 70's by Douglas Trumbull with his 70mm film process called Showscan (see the More Coverage link below for its comeback tour), but studios and theaters of the era couldn't stomach the cost of the celluloid it required and the company went bust.
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