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Welcome to the "Having some fun....in s-l-o-w  ~~~  m-o-t-i-o-n"   web site! On this home page we'll introduce you to what can be done with a digital video camera, slowed down to a stream of frame-by-frame pictures with an added digital sound track.  The very first selection is displayed immediately below, with other selections ("Majordomoer of the moment,"  "Along the Platte River,"  and "Majordomoer, California Style) displayed on successive screens along the very left hand margin of this screen <--- just point to and click on them. 

Video Clip # 1: Papa and 3---a 97-second  video clip with its own sound track, taken from live action photographed in real time back in August 2004.  Can you put a name to this majordomoer ? 

THERE ARE 3 DIFFERENT PLAYERS OFFERED HERE, DEPENDING ON YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION SPEED:  (1) Hi,  (2) LO, and (3) MEDIUM.  Of the 3 media players offered here, just find that player that best fits your computer and then point to and click on the corresponding "play button" located in the controls area of that player.

 
LO-Internet Connection Speed Viewers with 56K dial-up modems, CLICK on PLAY button above to start playing this wmv compressed video clip. During loading process, try moving slide bar back to the beginning. Once fully loaded, right click on image for add't'l options such as 'full screen' viewing


Hi-Internet Connection Speed Viewers @ 300 Kbps or better, CLICK on PLAY button above to start playing this mpg video clip. During loading process, try moving slide bar back to the beginning. Once fully loaded, right click on image for add't'l options such as 'full screen' viewing

 
MEDIUM-Internet Connection Speed Viewers @ 160 Kbps or better, CLICK on PLAY button above to start playing this wmv compressed video clip. During loading process, try moving slide bar back to the beginning. Once fully loaded, right click on image for add't'l options such as 'full screen' viewing

This video in real time is 97-second long and it includes a sound track---so turn your speakers on. 

For all those selecting the Hi-Internet Connection Speed player, the MIME type of that video is "mpeg" or even more simply, "mpg" so the media player playing that clip will be that which your own computer has previously been assigned to play MIME type "mpeg" videos---be it QuickTime, Real One, or Windows Media Player.

For those selecting either the LO or the MEDIUM Internet Connection speed player, the MIME type of that video is "wmv",  so the media player playing that clip will be that which your own computer has previously been assigned to play MIME type "wmv" videos---be it QuickTime, Real One, or Windows Media Player.

Note too that there is a significant loss of picture quality when moving down the ladder from a Hi-Internet Connection speed player playing at 300 Kbps or better to say the LO-Internet Connection speed player playing at only 56 Kbps or less. 

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