[GreenKeys] 1920 Film - Washington Navy Radio

[Richard Knoppow]

    I'm not old enough to remember silent movies in the theater 
but certainly home movies were shot at silent speed, until maybe 
the 1960s when some were shot at 18 FPS.
    16 FPS dates to Edison who established the standard speed, 
one foot per second and 16 frames per foot.
    I do NOT like seeing silent pictures run at sound speed. That 
running around you find amusing ruins the dramatic content. 
Compare sometimes. Movies were a well developed art (no pun 
intended) by the time sound displaced silent pictures. There are 
a fair number of good silent films on You Tube. You can run them 
at nearly the correct speed. Listen in silence because the 
contemporary music for most of them is just awful.
    I managed to see many silent films from original prints or 
good reprints with music supplied, sometimes, by the classic 
organists who played for them originally such as Chauncy Haines  
and Ann Leaf. Many of the silent picture organists worked later 
in radio. People like Lew White, who played for "Inner Sanctum". 
I AM old enough to remember radio before TV destroyed it. I don't 
think there was ever much in OZ but I could be wrong.


On 2/16/2021 4:52 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
>> The film was shot at silent speed, i.e. 16 frames per second. 
>> Sound speed is 24 FPS and the film appears to have been run at 
>> that speed. [...]
>
> Oops; my mistake...  I'm not quite old enough to remember the 
> silent movies, but I do enjoying seeing them played at 24fps 
> with everyone running around like mad :-)
>
> -- Dave VK2KFU

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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL