Thread: M1917 Rifle from Forge to Finish

in the silent movie days there was no standard frame rate but the average was a bout 18 frame per second. then when they projected it in the theatre, the projectoinist turns the crank at the speed it looked right. when sound movies came, (1929) it was standardised at 24 fps with mechanised cameras and projectors. modern video was 30 fps. so old silent movies when run on modern equipment look sped up.
peter Jackson when making the WW1 doco 'they shall not grow old' digitally inserted in between frames into the old footage to bring the speed to the correct speed and also to smooth out the motion.

i know this because a million years ago i was in the picture business