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Post by SippinLean »

doc_gunthrop wrote: post #156
laurent92 wrote: post #146

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The case study of the ADHD trend in general population is Mission Impossible IV. It is filmed by shoulder cameras and the mounter is just playing piano on the console: there isn’t a shot longer than 4s in the entire movie, and the average of changing camera angle is 0,7s. All you can get is an impression of the main character on any given image, but you can’t rest and you can’t contemplate. This is especially comical…

Alfred Hitchcock films would be agony to that crowd. The opening shot for his film "Rope" clocks in at about 9 and a half minutes. All in a single shot!

Opening shot? That movie only had one shot ;)

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Post by IndySun »

doc_gunthrop wrote: post #156
laurent92 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The case study of the ADHD trend in general population is Mission Impossible IV. It is filmed by shoulder cameras and the mounter is just playing piano on the console: there isn’t a shot longer than 4s in the entire movie, and the average of changing camera angle is 0,7s. All you can get is an impression of the main character on any given image, but you can’t rest and you can’t contemplate. This is especially comical…

Alfred Hitchcock films would be agony to that crowd. The opening shot for his film "Rope" clocks in at about 9 and a half minutes. All in a single shot!

It was shot in segments but edited to look like one shot.

Back then, there were no such studio cameras to continuously record to film reels over a certain length.

Re: Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]

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Post by pvg »

JxLS-cpgbe0 wrote: post #159
laurent92 wrote: post #146

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The case study of the ADHD trend in general population is Mission Impossible IV. It is filmed by shoulder cameras and the mounter is just playing piano on the console: there isn’t a shot longer than 4s in the entire movie, and the average of changing camera angle is 0,7s. All you can get is an impression of the main character on any given image, but you can’t rest and you can’t contemplate. This is especially comical…

> there isn’t a shot longer than 4s in the entire movie is this hyperbole? Genuinely asking.

- The pictures they make these days are all MTV. Cut, cut, cut, cut. The opening shot of Welles's Touch of Evil was six and a half minutes long.

- Six and a half minutes?

- Three or four, anyway

Re: Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]

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Post by doc_gunthrop »

IndySun wrote: post #162
doc_gunthrop wrote: post #156

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Alfred Hitchcock films would be agony to that crowd. The opening shot for his film "Rope" clocks in at about 9 and a half minutes. All in a single shot!

It was shot in segments but edited to look like one shot. Back then, there were no such studio cameras to continuously record to film reels over a certain length.

The film camera magazine had a capacity of up to 10 minutes, so Hitchcock could film the scene all in one shot.

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Post by [deleted] »

pvg wrote: post #163
JxLS-cpgbe0 wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there isn’t a shot longer than 4s in the entire movie is this hyperbole? Genuinely asking.

- The pictures they make these days are all MTV. Cut, cut, cut, cut. The opening shot of Welles's Touch of Evil was six and a half minutes long. - Six and a half minutes? - Three or four, anyway

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Post by Joker_vD »

emiliobumachar wrote: post #88
bhickey wrote: post #57

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Can you expand on this? Were abscesses killing people or something else?

You know the very extreme of dental issues, nerve infections? Well, they're the very extreme because when it gets to the point of aching intensely all the time, anyone gets treated in a matter of days. If there's no treatment, it keeps moving in.

One of the things that always puzzled me about human anatomy is why the heck are there nerves inside the teeth?

Re: Animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the Middle Ages [video]

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Post by klodolph »

SippinLean wrote: post #161
doc_gunthrop wrote: post #156

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Alfred Hitchcock films would be agony to that crowd. The opening shot for his film "Rope" clocks in at about 9 and a half minutes. All in a single shot!

Opening shot? That movie only had one shot ;)

Several shots, planned out carefully so it could be edited to look like one shot.

Russian Ark (2002) (Russian: Русский ковчег) is a single 96-minute steadicam shot, and it has over 2,000 actors and three orchestras in it. It was recorded directly to a hard drive carried behind the camera operator, which could hold 100 minutes.

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Post by spenczar5 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #42
Animats wrote: post #7

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Those little intermediate piers were probably the slowest part of the on site work. And the most vulnerable part of the bridge, because that's what gets eroded. It's still the biggest cause of bridge failure.

Makes me wonder if they've been done in parallel or serially. Also, I'd love to know how the bridge was designed. How did they figure out the shapes of the supporting structure, or location of the piers? Etc. We have this knowledge systematized today, but we use mathematics in a form that was developed much later than those bridges.

According to JE Gordon in “ Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down,” the answer is surprisingly simple: everything was massively, tremendously overbuilt.

Also, often builders would start with scale models, and then exaggerate proportions - that doesn’t require sophisticated math. Just do the modeling “analog”!

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Post by [deleted] »

ip26 wrote: post #152
mensetmanusman wrote: post #108

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They will marvel at the transistor.

I'm biased, but I agree. I think the impact (as well as the marvel) is underestimated. It hasn't made the splash that antibiotics or fission did, but it underpins subtle, continued advancement in almost every other field. For example, any field that benefits from simulating physics- weather models, aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, nuclear physics, or protein folding. One specific marvel is the self-aligned gate ( https:…

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Post by strken »

BerislavLopac wrote: post #45
amelius wrote: post #29

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We work harder than our predecessors (8+ hours workday, 5 days a week, both men and women), so I'd say we aren't really as smart as them.

As opposed to 12 hours a day (depending on daylight), 6 days a week, both men (in the fields) and women (at home, without the luxury of washing machines and vacuum cleaners). Yeah, we certainly work harder...

Modern farmers in rich countries will pull 16+ hour days 7 days a week during harvest. Admittedly they're in tractor cabs listening to the radio rather than running around with a scythe, but the hours are long and the work's boring.
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