Utilising techniques of time lapse photography - split screen, rapid-fire images and intricate animation effects - to define the concept of a microsecond, this film poses probing questions about time and our relationship to it. It is indicated that 2800 years are to one day what a second is to a microsecond. The 2800 years go by at the rate of twelve still pictures (the art works and artifacts of civilisation) per second. Photo-video: Ralph Sargent. Voice: Loren McLaughlin. Percussion: Jack Eaton.
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ACMI Identifier
322193
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Time lapse cinematography
Animation → Animated films - United States
Crafts & Visual Arts → Images, Photographic
Experimental → Experimental films - United States
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Space and time
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Time measurements
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)