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Old 07-15-2020, 07:42 AM   #758
Bobble
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Originally Posted by 21C View Post
I love watching documentaries with old film footage - I'm currently watching America in Color (not that they are the only culprits). What annoys me to no end is watching all of the sped up film scenes which gives it that silent movie feel. I know that they have the technology to play the footage at 1.0 speed instead of the comical 1.5 or 2.0 speed. I end up playing some of the scenes on my DVR at 0.25 or 0.5 speed just to see it play out normally.

If you haven't seen it, check out "They Shall Not Grow Old". Filmmaker Peter Jackson colorized and restored a bunch of WWI video (including correcting the frames-per-second). They went so far as to get forensic lip-readers to lip-read a particular bit of silent video, research the unit to determine the appropriate accent, and then hire a voice actor with that accent to dub the video. Pretty thorough. Amazon Prime, I think.
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