Has anyone else noticed this? It feels like any old film from the past, everyone is walking just a little too quick, things are moving just a bit too fast. Is there a reason for this?
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It’s a problem with converting old film, which was shot at a lower frame-rate, and then playing it on modern TVs or cinemas, where the speed is between around 24-30fps. Audiences back in the day would’ve watched them at the correct speed, so they wouldn’t have seen them as “sped up”. This is also why old-timey announcers often sound like they took a hit of amphetamines and then inhaled some helium.
Nowadays you can digitize old movies and have computers or AI “fill in the blanks” so an old movie will run at the intended speed, but most of the old movies and shows were transferred to Beta SP or Digibeta tapes at the “wrong” speed, and it’s often not worth it to fix.
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