Why are all old films always just a *little* too fast?

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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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For really old films from the WWI and postwar era it’s because a lot of the cameras were hand-cranked and so the resulting film had a stuttery and variable framerate.

They’d play it back at a fixed and slightly too fast framerate to smooth it out, but it’s also sped up now.

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