Everyone who has watched movies has seen those dots flash in the upper right hand corner, the motor start cue followed by the picture switch over to the other projector cue.
But there are a few others I've seen that I am baffled about.
- On some old filmed commercials from the 1970s, sometimes there are numbers that flash at the corners and the sides that would've been cropped out by the CRTs of the day, but are plainly visible on modern flat panel displays. Some sort of productioncode?
- On 16mm film leaders, you sometimes see 5 big black dots on a white background flash by. It looks just like the 5 side of dice.
- Also, sometimes a thick black vertical bar with round cornrrs flashes by, with points on the sides at the middle. I call it the "popsicle stick". Something to do with picture alignment?
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