[78-L] The 21st Century - was 1906 film of a cable car ride

[Andrew Homzy]

Hi David & Ken,

Thanks for clarifying the points about capacity & speeds.

Regarding Wikipedia - I've always been suspicious of their articles - but in the past five years, they have improved their system/security/process and many scholars are contributing well researched information  - and often astonishingly up-to-date. 

I believe the 21st century has marked the end of the book era - although books will still be produced as novelties - such as we now see with the occasional issue of Lps, 78s and even cylinders. CDs are old technology. 

Apple & iTunes had a lot to do with that. There is more music now available than ever before in history. 

Many archives routinely send out pdf & mp3 files of precious information we could only previously access at great expense of time & money.

This list is an example of that shift -

Long live books and physical recordings.

Cheers,

A.


On 2011-03-25, at 6:10 AM, David Breneman wrote:

> --- On Thu, 3/24/11, Andrew Homzy <homzy at vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> 
>> My biggest question, because you weren't clear on the
>> point, is - If there is no editing, how were they able to
>> load almost 10 minutes of film into one camera in 1906 - a
>> special system devised for that shot?
> 
> Seven minutes at 16 fps is a little more than 400' of
> film.  That's not an awful lot (equivalent of 170' of
> 16mm).  And some cameras did have external magazines
> by the mid-1900s.
> 
> 
> 
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