• Film (Media Genre)
• Video Projector
• Movie Projector (Invention)
• Engineering (Industry)
• Mechanics (Field Of Study)
• engineerguy
• University Of Illinois At...

Bill tears apart a film projector to reveal the amazing mechanisms used in the pre-digital age to trick the mind into seeing a moving image. He uses high speed photography and animations to show how the projector moves the film intermittently, how a shutter strategically blocks light as the film moves, and how the photo sensor reads the sound. He explains how all these mechanisms are synced.

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