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| Series 17. Berliner Family Home Movie, 1903 or 1904 | |||||||||||||
| 1 film reel of 1 (12 feet) : | |||||||||||||
| Item available online. | |||||||||||||
| Due to the non-standard frame size of the original nitrate material, the
footage was "passed through" the printer four times in order to print all
segments of the picture to a 16 mm. viewing print. For the online Berliner
exhibit, the 16mm print was transferred to Betacam SP videotape to produce
the master for digitization. Short jumps in continuity in the digital
version indicate that small parts of the original film are missing. Like many other motion pictures of the time, the original film was probably shot with a variable speed camera. Therefore, in the video mastering process, the playback speed was adjusted to present the appearance of natural motion to the greatest degree possible. |
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