Films where they speed up little bits

[tractor]

James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service IIRC - car chase/mountain crash. Although it was only 3 seconds, the film did not ruin itself. Connery, how could it?

George Lazenby, aka James Bond, aka Hilary

[MicrosoftBob]

In the Jackie Chan film Thunderbolt he's a racing driver and there's what would be quite a good race scene at the end, except they speed up the film in an attempt to make it look fast.

As everybody knows from The Six Million Dollar Man, the way to make something look fast is to use slow motion.

True that, and not just for videos

In photography all those shots of cars that appear to be speeding around are usually shot with a camera mounted on a long arm off the back of the vehicle, shot with a low shutter speed whilst the car is doing probably about 5 mph

[unixman]

James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service IIRC - car chase/mountain crash. Although it was only 3 seconds, the film did not ruin itself. Connery, how could it?

[MarillionFan]

I guess everyone has their own story of a film that wrecks itself by speeding up little segments

I recall the fight scene in LadyKillers

and the kid in Mad max II

Sex scene in Clockwork Orange.

[tractor]

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I hate films that do this.

Used to make me laugh with films/series in the 70's with the car chases a la Sweeney. They used to speed the car chases up to make them look really hairy but it was so obvious that it was speeded up because all the indicators on the cars would be flashing fifty to the dozen, like one of the relays was out and the working side would flash at twice the speed. They should have just not used the indicators.

Of course, Benny Hill sketches were prime material for this technique to actually work.

[MarillionFan]

Against the dark is pretty bad, speeding up the film to make the vampire zombies look fast, and worse a vampire filming staring the Seagal

All shuffling zombies have a fast forward remote control they can use. How do you think the victims after running flat out for 10 minutes never outrun a shuffling zombie who appears to walk slower than AtW when it's his round at the bar.

[DaveB]

I guess everyone has their own story of a film that wrecks itself by speeding up little segments

I recall the fight scene in LadyKillers

and the kid in Mad max II

[VectraMan]

In the Jackie Chan film Thunderbolt he's a racing driver and there's what would be quite a good race scene at the end, except they speed up the film in an attempt to make it look fast.

As everybody knows from The Six Million Dollar Man, the way to make something look fast is to use slow motion.

[EternalOptimist]

I'm not so sure that I regret the loss of fly-chilling

but I would love to see a resurgence of some old fillums, like the George Formby ones maybe

[NickFitz]

There was a chap on Radio 4 the other day from a company that provides animals for films, up to and including polar bears (though their polar bear died last year). He explained that when they want to make it look like flies are settling on something, say a corpse or whatever, they chill a load of flies in the fridge to make them torpid and put them on it. As the flies warm up, they fly away. Then the film is run backwards and, if necessary, speeded up, and it looks like the flies are swarming down upon the bloodied whatever-it-may-be

I can imagine 4K video will make it much harder to get away with backwards-flying flies in the future, but I suppose they can just CGI them in now. So the art of fly-chilling will be lost, and we slide ever deeper into helplessness in the face of the onslaught of our machine overlords. There's probably a film in that.

[MicrosoftBob]

Against the dark is pretty bad, speeding up the film to make the vampire zombies look fast, and worse a vampire filming staring the Seagal

[EternalOptimist]

I guess everyone has their own story of a film that wrecks itself by speeding up little segments

I recall the fight scene in LadyKillers

and the kid in Mad max II