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Jim Koepke
04-26-2019, 1:41 AM
There are different areas of interest that can be selected from the description below the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjDclfAFRB4&app=desktop

0:08 - Notre-Dame Cathedral (1896)
0:58 - Alma Bridge (1900)
1:37 - Avenue des Champs-Élysées (1899)
2:33 - Place de la Concorde (1897)
3:24 - Passing of a fire brigade (1897)
3:58 - Tuileries Garden (1896)
4:48 - Moving walkway at the Paris Exposition (1900)
5:24 - The Eiffel Tower from the Rives de la Seine à Paris (1897)

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Mike Henderson
04-26-2019, 8:21 PM
Great video. It's just amazing to me that they can correct the video the way they do.

Mike
Frederick Skelly
04-26-2019, 8:40 PM
That was neat. I don't know what "speed corrected" means in a context of video restoration. But I noticed the pace of the carriages - it made me think "Man, life really moved at a slower pace then."
Frec
Mike Henderson
04-26-2019, 9:21 PM
That was neat. I don't know what "speed corrected" means in a context of video restoration. But I noticed the pace of the carriages - it made me think "Man, life really moved at a slower pace then."
Frec

In most older movies, it looked like people were moving very fast. That was because of the difference in the frame rate that it was shot at and the frame rate that it was shown at. They had to use a fairly fast frame rate to show the movie to avoid annoying flicker.

Speed correction makes the movie look "natural" as far as the motion of the people, animals, etc. are concerned. In this video (movie) the motion of the people appear natural to me.

Mike
Marshall Harrison
04-26-2019, 9:51 PM
Thanks JIm. That was very interesting.

I kept thinking that that was before two world wars and all of those people are long dead. Time moves on and waits for no one. Including us.
Frederick Skelly
04-27-2019, 5:19 PM
In most older movies, it looked like people were moving very fast. That was because of the difference in the frame rate that it was shot at and the frame rate that it was shown at. They had to use a fairly fast frame rate to show the movie to avoid annoying flicker.

Speed correction makes the movie look "natural" as far as the motion of the people, animals, etc. are concerned. In this video (movie) the motion of the people appear natural to me.

Mike

Thanks Mike! I thought their motion was very natural too.
Fred