A fast motion filmed car journey accelerates the viewer across Dublin in no time.
A car journey from the RTÉ studios in Donnybrook to the Phoenix Park is filmed at a slower frame rate than standard, which makes the drive look like ti took four minutes.
A standard film camera captures 25 frames per second. By slowing the camera to just five frames per second, a vehicle travelling at 20 miles per hour suddenly appears to be racing along at 100 miles per hour on screen.
Playing with frame rates can create dramatic effects. Shooting one frame per second, per minute, or even per hour can transform the look and feel of a sequence entirely. With camera speeds, the creative possibilities are almost limitless.
This episode of Anything Goes was broadcast on 28 March 1981. The presenter is Aonghus McAnally.
The accompanying music is Equinoxe, Pt 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre.
'Anything Goes' was a young people’s programme on RTÉ Television which went out on Saturday mornings. Presented by Aonghus McAnally, Kathy Parke, Dave Heffernan, Mary FitzGerald and Mary Frances Calayco, it was first broadcast on 4 October 1980 and continued for 6 years.
