[geeks] Metropolis

[joshua d boyd]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 12:36:48AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Copyrights can be renewed, IIRC.

Yeah, but was it, and if so, for how long?

> The Flashing comes from missing/out of sync frames - the first cameras were
> advanced by *hand* by the camera man - they didn't have electric motors to
> advance the film through the camera. You knew that, because when you play
> (or *watch* other people if you insist ;^) charades, how o you indicate
> "movie title"? You make a lens with one hand and *crank* with the other...

Yeah, I know.  Still, seems that a little digital wizardry could fix that,
as well as fixing other things.  David F. would probably hate this though.
 
> As for the "talking" - the words on screen don't have the name of the
> speaker - how else would you know who said something you just read? It's
> quite clever - it leave lots of room for the text/dialouge...

I had a longer reply typed to that, but it got lost, and I'm too tired to
retype it.  Let me just say, I was expecting something without
dialog.  Further, there should be a better method of tracking who said
what, but I'm not going to puzzle over it till tomorrow.
 
> Now, try my film - "Cinima Paradiso", be warned, it is a chick-flick...

Hmm, IMDB does turn it up, nor did my (crappy) video store.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd