Abstract:
A motion picture which includes a plurality of scenes is shot by selecting at least two different film frame rates for recording the scenes, predetermining one of said rates for each scene and recording each scene on film at the film frame rate that was predetermined for that scene. The motion picture is subsequently displayed by projecting the film using at least one projector which is capable of being operated at least two different film projection rates. Projection is controlled so that the film is continuously projected while varying the film projection rate to cause each scene to be projected at a frame rate corresponding to the frame rate at which the scene was recorded. The projector may be a rolling loop projector having a rotor provided with an even number of gaps in which film loops are formed, and the variation in frame rate achieved by feeding film into all of the gaps or alternate ones only of the gaps, at constant rotor speed.