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Ubiquitous
05-06-2009, 08:51 AM
HoF pitcher Three Finger Brown pitching. (http://www.tmarchman.com/ic/this-justifies-the-internets.html)
Brian McKenna
05-06-2009, 09:27 AM
Nice - I always thought he was a little heavier than that.
brett
05-06-2009, 09:53 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzkyW7WcybU
Is it this one?
Bill Burgess
05-06-2009, 10:10 AM
It appears that the photo-editor repeated the same footage 6 times.
It's not 6 different pitches, but the one pitch. Still, it is a wonderful effort by whomever endeavored to do it. Kudos to the photo-editor.
History Of Baseball Fan
05-06-2009, 12:58 PM
Thanks for posting that video. I like watching old time footage from that era. Does anyone know the year that was taken ?
Does anyone have some kind of list of known deadball era footage that still survives to this day ? I've always wondered how Rube Waddell, Eddie Plank, Joe McGinnity, Addie Joss, Cy Young etc looked when they pitched.
I found this a while ago, showing real old footage. Hope you enjoy it ! It actually shows World Series footage from 1909 and 1910 !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wz8CC-kwtU
If you can find anymore old footage, i'd love to see it !
BSmile
05-06-2009, 01:37 PM
Thanks for posting that video. I like watching old time footage from that era. Does anyone know the year that was taken?
It was taken in 1907.
rsuriyop
05-06-2009, 01:45 PM
Just how do you take still shots, sequence them together, and somehow make it look like there are more frames in the clip than there are available photos? Or did the video editor really find literally hundreds of old photos of Mordecai doing that one pitching wind-up and decided to put them all in order?
BSmile
05-06-2009, 02:59 PM
Just how do you take still shots, sequence them together, and somehow make it look like there are more frames in the clip than there are available photos? Or did the video editor really find literally hundreds of old photos of Mordecai doing that one pitching wind-up and decided to put them all in order?
It was put together from one set of 64 individual photos...chopped up then reassembled.
rsuriyop
05-06-2009, 03:13 PM
It was put together from one set of 64 individual photos...chopped up then reassembled.
Ah, I see now. So he didn't actually "create" in-between shots through photoshop to make for a more fluid movement/animation as I initially had suspected. Still impressive nonetheless...
History Of Baseball Fan
05-06-2009, 08:19 PM
Ah, I see now. So he didn't actually "create" in-between shots through photoshop to make for a more fluid movement/animation as I initially had suspected. Still impressive nonetheless...
Is the 2 seconds or so of him pitching originally actually footage and then the rest is just the same footage repeated 5 more times ?
BSmile
05-06-2009, 08:58 PM
Is the 2 seconds or so of him pitching originally actually footage and then the rest is just the same footage repeated 5 more times ?
It looks like repeated footage...but it's well done!
Victory Faust
05-07-2009, 02:14 PM
Thanks for posting. I never figured I'd see footage of Three-Finger Brown pitching. Now all I need is to see a clip of King Kelly, and my life will be complete!!! :happy:
The Commissioner
05-08-2009, 07:58 AM
Wow, that was a nice editing job!
It's interesting to see how he "hid" the ball as he went into his motion. You can see how that thing must have seemingly whipped out of nowhere for a batter. Can you imagine what a muddied ball looked like coming off of his release from a hitter's P.O.V.? That helps explain the 2.06 ERA.
Ubiquitous
05-08-2009, 10:35 AM
That helps explain the 2.06 ERA.
That and the 319 unearned runs.
The Commissioner
05-15-2009, 07:57 AM
That and the 319 unearned runs.
Yeah, but it's all relative. Without the errors perhaps some of of those are earned runs, or perhaps some of those runners just don't get on base to begin with and he winds up with 260+ wins. We have no way of knowing. In either scenario Brown is still one the all-time greats.
Paul Wendt
05-15-2009, 11:49 AM
comment at the page cited in #1 (tmarchman.com)
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Simply great. This is clearly an animation from a flip book produced by The Winthrop Moving Picture Company in 1907 as a companion to "Christy Mathewson and the New York National League Team ." The site is the Polo Grounds and one must assume the year is the same as the Mathewson production.
May 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM | Unregistered Commenter John Thorn
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detail at the page cited in #3 (youtube)
("more info" available)
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Original picture sequence from Library of Congress. Twice at 4 frames per still, twice a bit faster, then twice super slow.
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