The Mysteries Of Television

July 6th, 2009
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Meghan from Duluth, MN almost unlocks the mystery of full motion video:

When I was very young I didn't understand how the TV worked, specifically, how all those tiny people could fit in the box so I could watch them.

I figured that all of the cartoon characters were real, but anything that wasn't a cartoon, was just a bunch of photographs. In order to make it look like a real show, Mickey Mouse (or some other cartoon character) would switch the photographs really fast in order to produce a moving image. Oddly, Bo and Luke Duke (from the Dukes of Hazzard) were exempt from that rule, and were real, just like the cartoon characters.

It's odd that I got the general concept of cell animation, just completely screwed up when it was used.

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4 Responses to The Mysteries Of Television

  1. hustler July 7, 2009 at 3:08 am | Permalink | Reply

    Along those same lines, our tv had static on it one day. Not knowing what it was, I told my mom there were people inside the tv throwing rocks at us.

  2. I Used To Be Stupid July 7, 2009 at 12:39 pm | Permalink | Reply

    This is quickly becomeing the page of cat pictures. oh my!

  3. hustler July 8, 2009 at 3:19 am | Permalink | Reply

    ha ha. I noticed that too!

  4. Orionizer May 26, 2010 at 10:41 am | Permalink | Reply

    I thought the EXACT same thing about rapidly flipping the pictures!

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