Another example of what happens when creative people are given to much free time to play around to alleviate the boredom.
Here, from Twitter posts by @CuriousBritishTelly, are the opening credits to Saturday Night Fever overdubbed with the theme tune to Steptoe & Son and Rocky training on the streets of Philadelphia over the theme tune The Good Life.
Can your locked-down, furloughed or otherwise under-stimulated imagination come up with a combination to match this?
Recording super slow motion video at high resolution has always been expensive, requiring specialist equipment and the results can be of low, jittery quality at more than 240fps. Using machine learning models like Google Research’s Frame Interpolation for Large Motion (FILM and the Amazon SageMaker cloud service, a new system from AWS “analyses motions between input […]
It has been used in hundreds of films since first appearing in Distant Drums in 1951 The BBC’s Inside Cinema on how the cinema industry’s ultimate in-joke, the Wilhelm Scream, came to appear in some of best-known and most-loved films, from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises to the likes of Toy Story, Reservoir […]