[60 fps] The Flying Train, Germany, 1902 (See pinned comment)

look this up ===== nitrocellulose film rot ====

https://www.filmpreservation.o....rg/preservation-basi

https://www.nfsa.gov.au/preser....vation/preservation-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJFuZoyKUy0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raEDtLNd3l4

I won't go on and on and on and on and on - for ages... But when I saw the detail - in the inherent base footage, and it has been restored and "clarified" by digital (neural) enhancement - well being one of the most ignorant men on the face of the earth, I knew that the specialness of the train line opening, and it being in Germany, AND around 1900, that they would have thrown a lot of money at the filming of the trip AND they would have been using really good stuff to do it with... An educated guess so to speak... A matter of probabilities... Only I was not aware of all the cinema film types and sizes, and I was fairly ignorant of all the camera makers and their lensing systems..... There is so much I know fuck all about... BUT there is a ratio, that in order to have REALLY GREAT and high detail footage, in the final restored film (or video) you basically have to start off with a really impressivly high standard of initial imagery to begin with. Like the 16mm home movies, don't scale up and or convert into super high quality 70mm cinematic super fine grain films.. BUT through the process of seek and ye shall find... I guess that this was a really special film format with HIGH DETAIL, and it comes out that the company had their own proprietary film type and size and probably cameras and lensing too, and the base film was a 68mm image size... I mean 68 x 68 mm = 4624 square mm Vs. 16 x 16 mm = 265 square mm - just on surface area alone, there is 18 x the amount of MORE detail in the 68mm film frame. Well that is like a page with text - say 1,000 words to a page, and then the big page had 18,000 words on it.

And here is something that I have always been impressed by - the Daguerreotype picture process, because it is mercury vapour on a developed silver base, and not a grainy film base, it is essentially almost infintely fine detail... sort of atomic level imaging... And when you get really brilliant Daguerreotype images - they are pristinely clear like nothing else ===== https://www.theguardian.com/ar....tanddesign/2020/oct/ ======== and ==== Here is a treasure trove of them https://www.gettyimages.com.au..../photos/daguerreotyp

I am not sure how well this image will copy across, or if it links... But you can make out the leaves on the tress at 500 meters..... https://www.gettyimages.com.au..../detail/photo/stark-