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Alfonzo Liebenstein
I am constantly amazed by the genius of God, and putting this trilogy together has only increased my amazement. It was strange, because even as I was putting together Finger of God, thinking how much of a miracle it would be if even 1000 people ever saw this movie, I somehow had the suspicion that I was going to be making a trilogy. I had no idea what the other movies would be about, but simply had a sense that this was the first part of a much larger story.
Fast-forward five years, two documentaries and 120,000-plus DVDs sold, and his films continue to go viral among a rabid fan base of believers. As he launches a summer tour through about 40 cities for his new release, Father of Lights, Wilson is preparing for even greater response among believers and unbelievers alike. His new film documents real-life portrayals of God as a loving Father.
As a young adult, I'm often scared to go to the movies with my friends. I'm often scared to watch certain things on TV. Because I don't know if there may or may not be flashing lights used that could trigger a seizure. When I'm in public and on one of the many video screens hanging around the city comes up a commercial with flashing lights, I have to turn around in a matter of seconds hoping that it wasn't too late.
Something has to change. It is not necessary to use these lights. And definitely not in the extend they are used. But because of the desire to make everything bigger, better and more exiting, they are used. Which makes me and 50 million other people miss out. I can't join a conversation that my friends are having about the newest season of "Stranger Things" because I can't watch it, I can't watch "The Incredibles 2" even though I would love to after having seen the first one as a child before getting epilepsy.
I am not calling anybody or any filmmaker in particular out. These are just two examples of way too many. I am calling out the entire industry. Dear filmmakers, directors, producers, and everybody else involved, I want to appeal to your common sense, to your conscience, to your heart. You can make great movies, great TV shows, great commercials without the excessive use of strobe lights. You can tell great stories without the excessive use of strobe lights. You can create great experiences without the excessive use of strobe lights. And you can make a lot of people happier and safer without the excessive use of strobe lights. Because it is a risk to our health.
This is a topic that matters to a lot of people but is often not talked about. Which is why I decided to speak out today. Because I have enough. And I want everybody to sign this. To make it visible. To make it reach people. It does not matter if you are affected yourself, if you know somebody who is affected, or if you have no relation to epilepsy at all. You can be a part of a change that I want to achieve. You can make a difference. A difference that is very important for a lot of people. Please sign.
City Lights is an acknowledged classic, beloved by film buffs and casual viewers alike. It has had a special place in my silent movie collection for quite some time. You see, it was the first silent film that I fell in love with.
I was always surrounded by books in general and history books in particular; I especially liked books on the history of movies. After a while, though, I started to notice that there were mysterious gaps in the story. 1930 seemed to be the earliest release date to be covered in depth and yet I knew that the moving picture had existed for years before that. Most of the books tended to summarize silent films in a few pages with mentions of Valentino, The Great Train Robbery, the dancing dinner rolls scene from The Gold Rush and a couple words about slapstick. I had seen early Mutt & Jeff cartoons (those funky re-drawn and re-colored versions) and Felix the Cat but I had never seen a real silent feature.
So, strike one for the silents. However, I decided to give them another chance. What about Chaplin? He pretty much symbolizes silent film, right? To be honest, that was all I knew about him, along with the vague idea that he was considered controversial and that there was an Oscar-winning biopic about his life and career. Well, it seemed worth a try. I went back and rented a copy of City Lights. And here we are.
Pathos is a word that gets used again and again to describe the Chaplin style and with good reason. He asks for our laughter and our sympathy. In order to accomplish this, Chaplin would tap into dreams and desires that are universal to the human race.
City Lights is the story of a tramp (Chaplin) who is ignored and abused at every turn but he maintains his hope that romance and acceptance are just around the corner. The tramp falls hopelessly and unconditionally in love with a blind flower seller (Virginia Cherrill). Through a series of misunderstandings, she comes to believe that he is a millionaire. Smitten, the tramp keeps up the illusion. He is a romantic figure for the first time in his life.
City Lights was in production for over three years before its release. In late-1927 and early-1928, there was still some debate as to whether the talkies were a fad. However, it quickly became clear that the public wanted sound movies and only sound movies. Sound sequences were cobbled onto silent films and theaters everywhere were equipped for sound.
Chaplin could have easily turned City Lights into a talking picture. He certainly had the time and the resources. What he did not have was the desire. Chaplin considered his position but he believed in the power of the silent movie and felt that pantomime was the secret to his international appeal. He made the risky decision to not only make City Lights a silent movie but to make it the best silent movie possible. He hoped that by making the case for silent movies, he would be able to revive them as a popular artform.
Chaplin failed in that ambition but he succeeded brilliantly in making City Lights a silent film that would appeal to a talk-crazed world. The film smashed box office records and was acclaimed by contemporary critics.
Newcomers to silent film usually come in with some preconceived notions. I know I did. They expect slapstick and stylized action. City Lights delivers both of these thing but it also has more sophisticated elements that elevate the comedy to a higher level.
Simplicity is underappreciated but any artist will tell you that it is one of the most difficult things to achieve. Fancy, epic films have enough gingerbread to distract the audience from any flaws. However, nothing ages faster than gingerbread. Special effects may not seem so special after a few years but intelligent acting and a clear story are timeless.
City Lights is simple because of the amount of work that Chaplin poured into it. It succeeds because of that simplicity. It is a beautiful film and an eloquent ambassador for silent cinema. Everyone should see it at least once.
If you examine this sequence frame by frame, you'll see these stripes appear & disappear exactly every other frame. That makes me think it is not in the digital transfer or any subsequent processing, but in the original footage.I cannot think of any transfer process that would divide these frames so precisely.
I have looked at the current BluRay release of this as well as the gif & excerpt posted by the OP & it matches exactly. The BluRay is at 23.98 fps, which is a bit of a kludge to map to the old US/Japanese NTSC video system Don't ask;) , but is close enough to the original 24fps that inter-frame aberration should happen infrequently.
I don't think it could be any kind of physical 'shake' of the vehicle or lights - because the chances of that syncing perfectly to frame rate would be astronomically small.
The only conclusion I can draw at the moment is that there may have been something in the shutter/gate mechanism that presented itself slightly differently on alternate frames. I'm not really sure how this may happen. I've discovered that the camera used, a Mitchell BNCR, may have had an optical splitter fitted, which would present light to the film & to an eyepiece for the cameraman.
There may have been a moving pentaprism design somewhat akin to a [D]SLR ([digital]single lens reflex) camera - alternating between sending light to the film & to the camera op. To my admittedly limited knowledge, there was a 'movie' version of this which rotated to send the light in alternating directions - to film, then to the camera op, 24 times a second.
It may have used a beam splitter, the science of which hurts my brain;) The simplest version of this seems to be the pellicle mirror. These were first introduced as early as 1938, but even to this day they are not popular in 'stills' cameras. The pentaprism remained the most common structure until quite recently when mirrorless cameras started to come to the fore. These use a digital screen as a viewfinder, eliminating the need for a separate optical path.
The streaking is an aspect of the lens flare you can see through most of the shot - light being reflected inside the lens and camera body itself. It's at its 'worst' when the headlights are pointing more directly at the lens.
(Edited) I originally noted that the flickering in the GIF was not every other frame, and only later was advised that the GIF is not a frame-by-frame transfer but is rather running at 20fps. Looking at the video clip, I see that it is indeed showing streaks every other frame.
There is nothing I am aware of in the Mitchell or any other 35mm movie camera that operates on every other frame: the entire mechanism is built around one cycle per frame. Likewise, there is nothing I am aware of in the film printing process that alternates frames. However, this is not the case with the conversion of film to video.
There are several different ways to transfer film to video, and some of them use dual cameras or rotating mirrors or prisms in a way where adjacent frames go through different optical components. My best guess is that this was transferred using a rotating mirror telecine and that one side of the mirror was dirty.
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