Category Archives: Video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FthEJGR61c8

‘Movie overanalysers’ The Film Theorists explore the deft editing of  camera tilts, whip pans, push-ins, blurred and dark screens (inspired by Hitchcock’s Rope [1948]) that made Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman seem like one long continous shot.

Which it wasn’t, obviously.

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A collaboration between YouTube pop scientists Minute Physics and xkcd cartoonist Randall Munroe, to promote his upcoming book: Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, wherein various not-very-straightforward things are explained using only the 1000 most common words in the English language.

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