If you're nostalgic for vintage films then 8mm Vintage Camera — a very successful $2 iOS app — will be right up your street, thanks to its easy-to-use interface and the great blurry clips it generates.
Some fans who post herky-jerky, oft-blurry clips also reported their Twitter accounts had been shut down.
A blurry video clip released when the rediscovery was announced failed to convince many ornithologists of the animal's existence.
A blurry video clip, said to date to three days after the rally, shows her alive and not obviously hurt; other sources claim she was cut when a brick was thrown into her car.
With every shaky cameraphone video and every blurry dashcam clip of another black person senselessly killed at the hands of the police, who are supposed to protect them, the indignity of black death in America comes into sharper and sharper focus.
The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips.
Other researchers adopted this controversial investigative technique, and British and American TV have broadcast some of these images: blurry black-and-white clips of mothers smothering their babies, who struggle against pillows; a mother disconnecting her daughter's oxygen tube; another jamming her fingers down her baby's throat.
Film footage offered a cheap way of getting crowds on stage, or a lazy way to convey the passage of time, as happened in Trevor Nunn's 1999 production of Betrayal, in which the actors, who grow gradually younger throughout the play, were sabotaged by blurry black-and-white clips to cover scene changes and generate a bit of nostalgia with artful sunshine and laughing children.
While some of the video clips are too blurry to use to determine species, Rohrbaugh says others are quite clear.
