fatecolossal
Great Northern Hotel
- Apr 18, 2022
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This is something I've been idly wondering about for a while: I often play around with (screen-recorded) clips of TP: The Return in a video editor for various reasons, and I've long noticed that sometimes a single frame of transitioning between shots will be a superimposition of the one shot and the next shot. As an example, see the image below from P18. I'm out of my depth here, and have assumed that this is just an artifact of one of the technological processes at play here rather than something Lynch intentionally built into it. Like, perhaps my screen recording app sometimes incidentally adds this effect, but it was never present in the product Lynch made. But given how much Lynch loves superimposition, given how striking and potentially intriguing some of the superimpositions are, and given Lynch's knack for including really tiny hyperspecific touches in his works that mostly go unnoticed, I've wondered if perhaps my initial reaction was wrong and possibly this is something Lynch actually built in. So maybe someone on here more knowledgeable about the technologies at play can speak to whether this is something a screen recording software (or something like that) might produce as an accidental artifact. Or (failing that) maybe someone with capacity to do so can take the blu-ray and go frame-by-frame through to see if this is present on the original blu-ray? The example I use below is the transition frame from the last shot of Diane looking at her doppelganger to a shot right as Coop exits the Motel office in P18, fwiw.
