Product: DVD Player
Silent Film mode for DVD players   (+16, -1)  [vote for, against]

The "Silent Film" mode for DVD players will show all films in grainy black and white with a slightly variable frame-rate. The musical score for the film will be analysed and converted to a piano accompaniment. Random subtitles from the DVD's subtitle track will occasionally be extracted and shown, surrounded by decorative flourishes, in an old-fashioned typeface in white on a black screen. The credits will be shown at the beginning of the film. At the end of the film, the text "THE END" will be shown over the closing shot.
-- hippo, Nov 03 2010

Only tenuously related to this idea. http://www.boingboi...lloween-the-gr.html
[DrBob, Nov 03 2010]

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"These aren't the Droids you're looking for."

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-- 8th of 7, Nov 03 2010


Brill. Though in the case of Star Wars, I would rather like to see Darth Vader recast as a moustache twiddling, top-hat wearing villain, who keeps kidnapping Princess Leia and tying her to the hyper-tracks.
-- zen_tom, Nov 03 2010


//analysed and converted to a piano accompaniment// Is this possible to automate? Shouldn't it just _be_ silent? Or at least just make ciné projector sound effects sssschackerchackerchacker... You can sit at the piano and improvise your own accompaniment. I agree with [ZT], this sounds like a project for a studio of film-makers (in China presumably, to keep costs down)
-- pocmloc, Nov 03 2010


/ //analysed and converted to a piano accompaniment// Is this possible to automate? /

It should be, with the appropriate software, but on a computer, not on the cheap hardware inside a DVD player.
-- BunsenHoneydew, Nov 03 2010


Very amusing :)
-- phundug, Nov 03 2010


+ fun but I'm afraid this is baked my old VCR player!! ;)
-- xandram, Nov 03 2010


Eh? Why?
-- BunsenHoneydew, Nov 04 2010


I think what Ian's getting at is the style of older films to faff-about for much of the beginning of the film, setting context etc - in a way that's not so necessary nowadays (certainly not via the medium of big banners providing the exposition in text anyway) now that a common set of standard conventions (and alongside those, viewer expectations) can be relied upon, we can normally skip almost directly to the explosions.
-- zen_tom, Nov 04 2010


Sounds good to me. [+]
-- xenzag, Nov 04 2010


FINALLY! Old DVD porn is old again! [+]
-- Letsbuildafort, Nov 07 2010


Friends did this with their wedding video. Devastatingly funny, with jerky motion and cars zooming about frantically.
-- infidel, Nov 08 2010


Two thumbs up, by the way.
-- infidel, Nov 11 2010



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