{"id":16474,"date":"2020-01-17T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=16474"},"modified":"2020-01-16T02:52:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:52:41","slug":"pocket-boxers-1903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/pocket-boxers-1903\/","title":{"rendered":"pocket boxers &#8211; 1903"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pocket-boxers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16475\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pocket-boxers-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Toronto<\/strong>. trick photography in films goes back over a century. Take this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Path\u00e9\">Path\u00e9<\/a> home movie film short from 1903 called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2445090869103254\"><em>the pocket boxers<\/em><\/a>. An image of two boxers is superimposed on a pub table top using the dark curtain as a back drop. The two gentlemen produce and remove the boxers with a sleight of hand. Their actions in between are matched to the boxers.<\/p>\n<p>This example shows how film could be manipulated to use two different sizes combined by using a dark backdrop for the one film that matches the curtains in another. In a similar fashion modern day TV News uses a green screen to superimpose the news\/weather readers and slides and videos so the people seem to be in front of the scenes.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to George Dunbar for discovering and sharing this old Path\u00e9 movie with the clever merging of <em>the pocket boxers<\/em> with the pub folk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. trick photography in films goes back over a century. Take this Path\u00e9 home movie film short from 1903 called the pocket boxers. An image of two boxers is superimposed on a pub table top using the dark curtain as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/pocket-boxers-1903\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[2955,1040,1028,2956,58,93,2363,2957,2954],"class_list":["post-16474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-2955","tag-bw","tag-black-and-white","tag-boxers","tag-history","tag-movie","tag-pathe","tag-pocket","tag-trick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16478,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16474\/revisions\/16478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}