Mr Spock could not have said it better.* In "Choices, Values and Frames", edited by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Where, he asked, were those willing to celebrate film as film – "lighting, camera movement, framing, editing, sound, all those elements that a casual movie-goer is not likely to consciously register" but which are "as crucial to the effect of a movie as brushstrokes and pigment are to a painting"?
So, although in its framing, editing and analogizing it does impose a human framework on the unknowable intelligences of its subjects, we are thankful (on balance) for the seven-part "North America," premiering Sunday on Discovery Channel.
Instapic Frames is a free app that lets users choose from dozens of different frames, edit photos individually, and upload the finally collage directly to Instagram.
Then delete frames in editing to get it to appear to normal speed, making sure the deletions are uniform (for example, every other frame).
Viewers may also detect a relationship between Mr. Pfeiffer's frame-by-frame editing technique and Robert Rauschenberg's "Erased de Kooning," a 1953 drawing by Willem de Kooning that Mr. Rauschenberg erased, leaving bare traces of the original before exhibiting it as his own.
The demo video below shows one frame editing, but it should be noted that the tool can be used for traditional style (frame by frame) comics.
Another arm extending to the head controls its movement independent of the body, with ILM editing out the extra wheels and control frame in editing.
When a viewer can be taken inside a movie, pretty much everything known about a century of cinematic storytelling, framing and editing goes out the window.
To remove a photo from the frame while editing in InstaPicFrame, just tap on the photo for some time to get the options about replacing or deleting it.
