The new blockbuster The Hobbit is subtitled “An Expected Journey.” That can just about sums up director Peter Jackson’s experience.
Good deeds never pay. Filmmaker Peter Jackson’s who won 17 Academy Awards with the trilogy The Lord of the Rings decided to solve film’s biggest flaws—the flickering effect from a film speed set at least 90 years ago.
For every second of a movie, 24 images flash rapidly on the screen to create the illusion of motion. That 24 frames per second pace was picked not for visual quality