L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat

[DavidB-AU]

The landmark 1896 Lumière Brothers film has been digitally remastered into 4K 60fps.

 

 

[jivebunny]

Wow, looks incredible in 60fps. I somehow doubt it would have the same effect on people in the cinema as the original did though 

[BernardTPM]

Is that an authentic French whistle?

[Pacific231G]

8 hours ago, BernardTPM said:

Is that an authentic French whistle?

I don't think so and I'm pretty sure they didn't have PA systems for station announcements in 1896 either.  Nevertheless, Denis Shiryaev has done a terrific job with this. There is a lot of detail in there that I had no idea even existed so the algorithms he used must gathered information from multiple frames to capture that. The Lumiere brothers shot at a nominal frame rate of 16fps, though being hand cranked it must have varied a bit, so this is interpolating about three frames for each one shot but he's done it very well.

Interesting fact. The Lumieres called their system that could both shoot and project films the Cinématographe, which is where cinema and cinematogrophy come from. As kinematics is the science of movement I always wondered why it wasn't kinema but it's Cinématique in French. 

Edited February 27, 2020 by Pacific231G

[BernardTPM]

Best enjoyed without sound then.

[DavidB-AU]

Having watched it on a big screen it has an early 70s video feel to it, like it's on 2 inch broadcast master tape.