METHOD FOR IMPARTING BOTH HIGH-IMPACT CINEMATIC IMAGES AND CONVENTIONAL CINEMATIC IMAGES ON THE SAME STRIP OF MOTION PICTURE FILM

摘要

A method is disclosed whereby film images designed to produce a high-impact effect upon the members of an audience viewing a motion picture film are composited with other images designed to provide the conventional cinematic effect upon such audience members. 'High-impact' film images (21-23) photographed at forty-eight of fifty frames per second are composited with 'conventional' images (11-13) photographed at the traditional motion picture rates of twenty-four or twenty-five frames per second, with such images superimposed onto the same film frame. Certain portions of the motion picture image (31-33) seen by the audience deliver a greater illusion of reality than other portions of the same motion picture image. In addition, the method described can accommodate the intercutting of discrete scenes presenting either high-impact or conventional cinema experience. The method disclosed here also allows easy conversion of films of the 'conventional' twenty-four or twenty-five frames per second rate associated with conventional motion picture release and exhibition.