I am curious as to what this would have demonstrated.
David
It basically shows the astronaut jogging past the camera at a reasonable speed and then suddenly switches to the standard slow motion that we normally see. A very abrupt speed change never seen in the rest of the footage.
There is nothing about Lunar gravity or the suit that should force all kinesiology to be in slow motion. Yet that is is exactly what we see. There are some amazing archive footage of simulated lunar gravity done showing the incredible athletic feats that would be possible. Enormous flips, diving into the air and landing on your hands, climbing poles with one hand etc... It's very cool!
Different frame rates were used, usually dependent on relation to the camera. The master film was most likely captured at 144 fps. From here several patterns could be extracted via optical printer, for the different speeds. This also includes the independent red, green and blue channels resulting in the extraordinary rainbow motion blur.
For the most part it was quite accurate but not every time. Specifically the difference between the calculated fall speed of the astronauts being suspended with a counter weight system and those of thrown or falling objects that require a different frame rate. This is where a lot of the errors occurred. Through the optical printer you could easily and accurately extrapolate whatever would be required. They did get sloppy though.
I hopefully will get around to provide full details of this and the patterns that were used. I have thoroughly tested it and works in every single instance. There is the added difficulty of the conversion from 24 fps to 30 fps for the majority, resulting in duplicate frames. There are also dropped frames and other sequences that are converted from lower frame rates resulting in a number of duplicate frames per second. Still these can be converted and reversed engineered. This works well to hide inconsistencies. These days we can generate interpolated frames from footage.
The system was quite ingenious for the time. The most likely suspect for this was Douglas Trumbull. Who coincidentally enough was very big into the effects of frame rates and film. He was the VFX master of the time. It was masterfully done.
When we finally see people on the moon the first thing we should recognize is the discreet difference in human kinesiology. Then we'll see what we have always seen, that it is quite obviously just slow motion. I don't get why people don't recognize it, there is no reason for it.