24 Fps facts
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James Cameron plans on filming the Avatar 2/3 at 48-60 FPS rather than 24 FPS to add a heightened sense of reality by reducing motion blur and flicker
Old films (Charlie Chaplin) play fast because they were recorded and projected at 16 frames per second. That is too slow for audio, so when audio recording began, they switched recording and playback to the 24 fps we use today, so when older films are played they look "sped up" as a result.
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In 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' the camera is animated at 24 fps but all characters except for the Spider-Men are animated at 12 fps. Miles Morales starts at 12 fps but becomes 24 fps throughout the movie as he learns to become Spider-Man
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Thomas Edison said that 46 frames per second for silent films was the minimum needed by the visual cortex: "Anything less will strain the eye." Current industry standard filming and projection formats are 24 FPS.
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In the 1986 film "Little Shop of Horrors", in order to get a fluid, lifelike performance from the elaborate plant puppet, director Frank Oz shot the scenes at 12 FPS and then sped up the footage to the normal 24 FPS.
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Bruce Lee was so fast that he could take a coin from a person's open hand AND replace it with another before the person had time to close it. Some of his fighting sequences were so fast that the film had to be actually slowed down and shot in 32 fps instead of the normal 24 fps.
