Watching Sandi as a guest with Stephen hosting is like watching a Dr Who story when there is more than one Doctor.
@reasonablyserious
3 жыл бұрын
Or any if we think of the current state of the show
@phosphoros60
3 жыл бұрын
I watched a French swearing-in of Parliament once from like 2012 or so, and while they were doing the Marseillaise it panned through the rows and sure enough, there was Macron... Had a similar thought then.
@ianrodd9232
3 жыл бұрын
Stephen is the Tom Baker of QI hosts, then.
@daanwilmer
3 жыл бұрын
Like the episode Fires of Pompeii, then?
@ericadunn9435
3 жыл бұрын
I prefer Sandi as a guest
@rhiannontalbot1
3 жыл бұрын
Love seeing sandi and Stephen together. When will we have stephen on sandi's panel?!
@davidyoung5114
3 жыл бұрын
I hope that they run the entire series of letters (X & Y together?!) and on the very last show (Zenith?!), they have Stephen Fry back on the panel, along with two others chosen by an audience poll. I would vote for Phil Jupitus and Aisling Bea.
@rhiannontalbot1
3 жыл бұрын
David - i would vote for Bill Bailey definitely
@davidwilliams8440
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidyoung5114 they should be able to pick a favourite panellist each to fill the last two spots
@gaiusjuliuspleaser
3 жыл бұрын
@@rhiannontalbot1 Bill Bailey and David Mitchell would be my dream team
@l0u13__3
3 жыл бұрын
Sean Locke
@josh.weaver
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know if it's just me, but when the video ends I just desperately want to click off it fast so Sandi doesn't get upset at me for taking too long to pick a new video
@joe-jones
3 жыл бұрын
well come on, pick SOMETHING.
@richodude2679
3 жыл бұрын
Lol, just like Albert Brooks on the Finding Nemo DVD
@quasarsphere
3 жыл бұрын
You're the reason Sandi drinks.
@mitchweiner
3 жыл бұрын
I thought it was just me wanting to do that for the same reason! 😂
@jakobsmith1396
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's annoying. So glad they shut the laptop on her, lol
@whuforever8088
3 жыл бұрын
I swear Bill Bailey is immortal, he literally hasn't aged.
@giantflyinghog3550
3 жыл бұрын
Obviously part of his powers as the rural Buddha.
@A_Dragovich
3 жыл бұрын
@@giantflyinghog3550 Or, better known as Dalai Farmer
@Professicchio
3 жыл бұрын
True, he's always looked about 59yo.
@outseeker
3 жыл бұрын
lol that would rly piss u off, wouldn't it? become immortal, but only in later age XD
@Shmiguelly
3 жыл бұрын
Clips from Series A in 2004 and 16 years later he wins Strictly looking exactly the same.
@tombailey1983
3 жыл бұрын
“Just two seconds in and you’re nursing a semi”
@FlyingScott
3 жыл бұрын
No but seriously it was like Jezza was in the room
@winter_silhouette
3 жыл бұрын
I can imagine Clarkson saying that
@almostfm
3 жыл бұрын
"It's the best movie death...in the world"
@Imloeyrose
3 жыл бұрын
i absolutely cackled at that bit
@theautopsyreportrockmetalr4583
3 жыл бұрын
...AND ACROSS THE LINE!
@simsandsurgery1
3 жыл бұрын
I love that noise Stephen makes when Alan asks him a question he doesn’t know the answer to.
@SpeccyMan
10 ай бұрын
... a question to which he doesn't know the answer. NEVER end a sentence with a preposition!
@edb2863
2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, psycho was considered controversial at the time of release for two reasons 1. It had a young, unmarried couple sharing a bed And 2. It was the first film to have a shot of a flushing toilet
@chrisoddy8744
2 жыл бұрын
Whereas the murdering bit and the mum-mified corpse type stuff was completely normal, naturally!
@edb2863
2 жыл бұрын
@@chrisoddy8744 yeah surprisingly that stuff didn't carry all that much controversy in comparison
@noahstern2089
Жыл бұрын
Stephen has been interested in pigeons since the bird he'd raised since he was just a nipper (Speckled Jim) mysteriously went missing.
@lilymarinovic1644
Жыл бұрын
Baaaa! Shot by a certain Captain E Blackadder
@djmoch1001
3 жыл бұрын
"So they [pigeons] are sitting there watching The Matrix, and they're thinking, 'When is something gonna happen??'" God bless you, Linda Smith.
@elainemagson213
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. So much missed.
@zbr76
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe I just need to see more of her work, but from her QI appearances, she just struck me as really dull and unfunny.
@PassportToPimlico
3 жыл бұрын
@@zbr76 She was really good on Radio 4's the News Quiz.
@christopherdean1326
3 жыл бұрын
@@zbr76 She was a fairly understated comedienne, never "laugh out loud" funny, just with a wry take on life.
@dereklawson1318
3 жыл бұрын
To be fair, most of us l thought that about the Matrix....
@alanhynd7886
3 жыл бұрын
Richard E is right about the exploding pigeons. He have the same thing up here in Scotland during the grain harvest. The birds eat as much grain as they can find scattered about, they then take a drink, then the contents of their gut swells up and they can die of it.
@PassportToPimlico
3 жыл бұрын
Supposedly that's how you kill slugs with bran.
@johanvajse8410
3 жыл бұрын
isn't it also why we stopped throwing uncooked rice at weddings? the birds would eat it and then "explode" in the process you mentioned
@alanhynd7886
3 жыл бұрын
@@johanvajse8410 Then there's this issue: kzitem.info/news/bejne/2p6rs4CmnaCAnY4
@decodolly1535
2 жыл бұрын
@@alanhynd7886 That's not an "issue", that's a fun day out for all the family! 😄
@ShogunFRIEND
2 жыл бұрын
@@johanvajse8410 This is apparently false from what I found - birdseed actually expands way more than rice does, and they don't die of it. Apparently the "birds pop with rice" myth was started by groundskeepers who didn't want to have to clean rice out of grass (which is impossibly difficult).
@MegaFortinbras
3 жыл бұрын
I actually have a natural mid-Atlantic accent. I was born in the UK, and my parents -- who taught me how to speak -- spoke upper-middle class British English. When I was a child, we emigrated to the US, and I've lived most of my life and had most of my education in America. People in the US say I sound British, and people in England say I sound American.
@pinkchihua
3 жыл бұрын
I have a similar thing except I grew up in The Bahamas and moved to England. English people say I sound American, Americans say I sound ‘British’, and Bahamians don’t know what to think.
@millomweb
3 жыл бұрын
@@pinkchihua No change there then.
@SpeccyMan
10 ай бұрын
Your vowel sounds would tell which is true.
@MegaFortinbras
10 ай бұрын
@@SpeccyMan I have RP "and some other vowels, I also have Middle Western American vowels. As I said, it's a real Mid-Atlantic accent.
@ejmartino3376
3 жыл бұрын
A great compilation with many clips I haven’t seen before!
@likebot.
3 жыл бұрын
Edith Skinner wasn't just Canadian, she was from Moncton New Brunswick where the Eastern Canadian accent is thicker than a figgy duff.
@morbius076j
3 жыл бұрын
That sound Stephen makes after Allan asks "What's the life span of a pigeon?" :D
@samarvora7185
2 жыл бұрын
Memories of Speckled Jim, I suppose.
@angrytedtalks
3 жыл бұрын
Sandi: You really must get out, Stephen Stephen: 🥺 bye... Sandi: This evening has changed my life
@uiscepreston
3 жыл бұрын
So the "mid-Atlantic" accent that Sandi is speaking of is most certainly derived from what is uncommonly known as Boston Brahmin - a very highfalutin but rare accent used by the old upper-class descendants of the colonial aristocracy in the Northeast US. In fact, the mere notion that Kelsey Grammar used it for 20 year in his depiction of a privileged but affected New England intellectual just proves its origin. David Odgen Stiers playing pompous Charles Emerson Winchester III in TV's M*A*S*H used the same accent, his character even claiming on the show to be of elite Brahmin lineage. Bette Davis was from Lowell. Katherine Hepburn was from Connecticut. Many of the actors and actresses who adopted this accent were actually from working class New England and wanted to indeed sound halfway to old England. John Houseman used it to great effect. But the accent was not made out of thin air.
@NuncNuncNuncNunc
2 жыл бұрын
If you haven't seen it, check out these two gentleman: kzitem.info/news/bejne/w46gu2pmmmqVoH4
@ticketyboo2456
2 жыл бұрын
Uisce Preston Not forgetting Stewie on Family Guy...
@Elitist20
Жыл бұрын
Two from 60s TV who had it: Natalie Schafer ('Lovey' Howell in 'Gilligan's Island') and Neil Hamilton (Commissioner Gordon in 'Batman'). Both had learned how to speak on the New York stage in the 1920s.
@treadtrick
3 жыл бұрын
Edith Skinner taught us "Standard American Speech"" at American Conservatory Theatre in 1977. Gen. director William Ball was a former student of hers. She was quite stern, but very interesting. :) I didn't realize then that she was the "inventor" of what we were being taught, though! Thanks, QI!
@just-tess
Жыл бұрын
She wasn't, and that's not what they said... "The codification of a Mid-Atlantic accent in writing, particularly for theatrical training, is often credited to Edith Warman Skinner"
@treadtrick
Жыл бұрын
@just-tess Thanks for your friendly response. I am aware of what they said, and I wasn't talking about the Mid-Atlantic accent, which was not what we were being taught. Throughout acting school we were encouraged to use Standard American Speech (also called "Good American Speech"). When I took Mrs. Skinner's class, I was unaware that she was the author of the 1942 book, "Speak with Distinction," or that she had trained so many movie stars from the 30s and '40s in SAS. I would have paid closer attention had I known! Her book became a standard textbook for actors, and one which I had heard of but had not read at the time, as the concept of SAS was being taught "in person" in our classes and the book was not required reading in the '70s. Mrs. Skinner did not mention that she had written this well-known text, and until QI mentioned her name, I hadn't thought to look up who was the author of said book. I used the word "inventor" in quotes in order to indicate irony. I'm sorry that was not clear.
@SpeccyMan
10 ай бұрын
@@treadtrickHow were her vowels? Americans really seem to struggle with vowels. For example: do aye-talians live in aye-taly?
@xonxt
3 жыл бұрын
3:30 so, pigeons are members of PC Master Race and prefer everything in 144 Hz or even 240 Hz?
@MrSmegheneghan
3 жыл бұрын
Well, they'd definitely have fun watching videogames as played by someone with a super high-end PC with a particularly fancy monitor that could render _that_ many frames-per-second, but with how many games that can actually play well at that frame-rate that actually _benefits_ from such a high frame-rate, you'd probably just be stuck playing Team Fortress 2 (capable of getting up to 300 FPS)
@j0hnn13K
3 жыл бұрын
pretty much so, yes :P
@klaxoncow
3 жыл бұрын
#PigeonMasterRace
@Stroopwafe1
3 жыл бұрын
@@MrSmegheneghan Not just TF2 lol. There're a myriad of games where you benefit from a higher frame rate, though the jump from 144 Hz to 240 is less noticeable than 60 to 144. There's a great video about this made by Linus Tech Tips
@DaveWraptastic
3 жыл бұрын
@@MrSmegheneghan there are loads of games capable of 250+ fps, even on my dated mid-end PC.
@Propulus
3 жыл бұрын
Stephen's Clarkson is spot on.
@CalvinLimuel
3 жыл бұрын
what I take away: Harrison Ford looks handsome when scared.
@shaunbrannan6765
3 жыл бұрын
Cocomelon
@needamuffin
2 жыл бұрын
During the Hitchcock segment, I was trying to remember if he was American or British and thought "it's hard to tell just by accent in those times because sometimes they sort of blended together from either side", then the very next segment is mentioning exactly that phenomenon.
@forthefrogs
3 жыл бұрын
"Hitchcock sounds like Jeremy from Top Gear" TREVOR I LOVE YOU BDJKE
@egoish6762
3 жыл бұрын
"Come on George, with 50000 men getting killed a week who's going to miss a pidgeon?"
@ejayman
3 жыл бұрын
"We didn't get any message, and Captain Blackadder definitely did NOT eat this delicious, plump-breasted pigeon!" "Do you want to be cremated Baldrick, or buried at sea?"
@RIXRADvidz
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in New Mexico with a Southern Father and and East Coast mother, I have no accent, but a shining gift for mimicry. I can Drawl with Belles of the Ball , so Fuggiddabout it Frankie.
@SpeccyMan
10 ай бұрын
But can you correctly pronounce the words Italian or solder?
@almostfm
3 жыл бұрын
That "Mid Atlantic" accent also used to be the standard for radio as well
@jonathannash8471
10 күн бұрын
Psycho is such a good film. When I first saw it I watched if four times in one week. Once by myself, then with three different groups. Spectacular.
@arpansarangi3132
3 жыл бұрын
"Well you must get out Stephen, really!" - Sandi at 5:48
@MyMindMakesLines
Жыл бұрын
Sandi is a fantastic host. Couldn't pick a better person for the job, after Stephen. Such a contrast and wise choice. Not attempting a similar choice to Fry kept the show's spirit.
@heidibarker9550
3 жыл бұрын
Greetings from a time when this video had less than 1000 views.
@derorje2035
3 жыл бұрын
now it does have between 1,500 and 2,000 views.
@igamarurbytes
3 жыл бұрын
Ah, the simpler times. Greetings from over 3,600
@heidibarker9550
3 жыл бұрын
@Pleoryo oh no I got the Klaxon and Sandi has probably slapped me with some grammatical sense.
@pipitameruje
3 жыл бұрын
13 hours later, this thing now has over 35k views. Nothing quite like a bit of QI
@djmoch1001
3 жыл бұрын
Damn, I had a sad when I saw Linda Smith in the first second of this. I miss that funny woman so much. :(
@melissahoneybee8493
3 жыл бұрын
Wait what? What happened to her? I love her humour.
@djmoch1001
3 жыл бұрын
@@melissahoneybee8493 She died of ovarian cancer in 2006. She’s been gone 15 years now.
@JonathanNichollstechandsuch8
3 жыл бұрын
8:37 Stephen slips up here. Psycho was tragically never actually nominated for Best Picture. Neither were most of Hitchcock’s most well known films, such as Vertigo, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Rope, Strangers on a Train and Dial M for Murder, all revered classics today.
@HolyGoddessMotherAnne
3 жыл бұрын
You forgot The Birds.
@lesblumhagen3921
3 жыл бұрын
Mid-Atlantic sccent was taught by a Canadian,yes. The accent is quite close to what was called Canadian Dainty in those days. You can hear it in early recordings of Canadian politicians, most notably by the first Governor General born in Canada, Vincent Massey. He is the same family as Raymond Massey who was the older doctor in the Dr Kildare TV series in the sixties.
@almostfm
3 жыл бұрын
Not just "the same family"-Raymond and Vincent were brothers.
@andywood5699
3 жыл бұрын
So there was a Canadian voice coach in Hollywood teaching everyone how to sound like a Canadian.
@blindwatchmaker2345
2 жыл бұрын
Bill`s answer was spot on .... films are not made with them in mind....
@theautopsyreportrockmetalr4583
3 жыл бұрын
"are there pigeons in Swassiland?" Should've said "not after a movie".
@blogsfred3187
3 жыл бұрын
Swaziland..I also grew up there..small country in Southern Africa.
@DrWhoFanJ
3 жыл бұрын
@@blogsfred3187 Now called eSwatini, of course.
@carlanc.84
3 жыл бұрын
I always stay to the end to watch Sandi, shes one funny lady.
@karabelle221
11 ай бұрын
Fun fact: Psycho was the first film to show a toilet flushing.
@secretsfullofsaucers
3 жыл бұрын
Speckled Jim!
@cormacmacsuibhne2867
3 жыл бұрын
2:25 it's Eswatini now.
@Imloeyrose
3 жыл бұрын
Is it just me that thinks that Alan's personality and mannerisms are similiar to Bens from Outnumbered?
@piotrmil
3 жыл бұрын
*Stephen Fry* : We see twenty-four, twenty-five frames per second *[PC Master Race disliked that]*
@elnoruego6854
3 жыл бұрын
Shut up
@Jame5man
3 жыл бұрын
You forgot the most important part of that sentence. The qualifier “as movement.” He’s not saying we only see 24-25 FPS. Anything slower appears to stutter and isn’t perceived as movement. Also it’s a tired “joke” and as the reply stated, please shut up
@TheEmptyAdventure
3 жыл бұрын
@@Jame5man PC Master Race really did dislike that lmaoooooo
@--Skip--
Жыл бұрын
I so wish QI was shown in North America.
@ambbarnes9839
3 жыл бұрын
Why dont pigeons like movies? They cant poop on the trailers
@christianbuczko1481
3 жыл бұрын
Thats better than the answer on the show..
@Tmanaz480
2 жыл бұрын
Wow...films AND movies!
@myname7056
5 ай бұрын
I knew straight away about Harrison Ford, & the man at 4:29 is Ivan Mosjoukine.
@maxanluulnaxam1102
2 жыл бұрын
Holy shit! A young Richard Grant!
@justvin7214
3 жыл бұрын
'But I don't talk like that' - Cary Grant.
@TMPreRaff
3 жыл бұрын
Oooohhh... Films AND Movies! Both!
@mastemawolfesq.2408
2 жыл бұрын
Nice to see Paddy the Baddy was on QI
@fretlessman71
Жыл бұрын
77 camera angles, and 51 cuts? That math doesn't add up...
@Alphabunsquad
3 жыл бұрын
Mid Atlantic accent isn’t just British and American. It was invented by an Australian and has elements of Australian as well. It was considered by those who promoted it to be the most correct pronunciation of every word. Transatlantic accent is the better name for it though since the mid Atlantic is a place in America. But drama schools would force their students to learn it and use in every role even if the character they were playing would have had a completely different, distinctive accent.
@SpeccyMan
10 ай бұрын
The only correct pronunciation of English words is the English. Australians are too nasal and Americans simply cannot pronounce any English word that contains one or more vowels. 😁
@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
2 жыл бұрын
02:22 Richard E. Grant was on _"Shooting Stars"_ one time. *Bob Mortimer:* _"Richard, you, of course were born in Switzerland."_ *Richard E. Grant:* "SWAAAAAZILAND!" *Bob Mortimer:* _"No, I think you'll find it's pronounced Switzerland"_ {:-:-:}
@bradleynoneofyourbizz5341
3 жыл бұрын
Pigeons in the theater lobby: "WTF do you mean I have to pay for popcorn?!?! I can get it in the park for free! Eff this place!"
@davidw3281
3 жыл бұрын
Psycho: first movie to show a toilet flushing
@jeffstranks1055
3 жыл бұрын
I heard that in Portugal Psycho was titled as (and I translate): 'The Man who thought he was his mother'. (O homem que achava que era a mae) How to mess up a film eh?
@mcastro4697
3 жыл бұрын
someone lie to you...
@jeffstranks1055
3 жыл бұрын
@@mcastro4697 Fair enough.
@mcastro4697
3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffstranks1055 in fact is “Psico” here 🇵🇹
@brydon5721
3 жыл бұрын
I love how Stephen and Sandi swoon over Trevor throughout the episode, I mean who wouldn't?
@weirdunclebob
3 жыл бұрын
The only man who could turn Sandi straight! lol I love the dynamic between all three of them. :)
@Evitaschannel
3 жыл бұрын
He was very uncharismatic this episode though. I felt like he didn't want to be there
@Lord_Skeptic
Жыл бұрын
9:35 Greenland
@FreakyLeek
3 жыл бұрын
Well please come on Steven, can you just watch the film and eat your popcorn?
@Willieg2008
3 жыл бұрын
As an American I've heard of the Transatlantic accent they used to teach in boarding schools and acting courses, but never the Mid-Atlantic
@decodolly1535
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe Mid-Atlantic is the UK term for the same thing. As a Brit, I can't remember ever hearing of the "Transatlantic accent".
@almostfm
3 жыл бұрын
@@decodolly1535 I think so, because there's a part of the US east coast that's known as the "mid-atlantic"-roughly from southern New York in the north to Virginia in the south.
@colonyofrats4193
3 жыл бұрын
@@decodolly1535 funny as a Brit I’ve only ever heard it called the Transatlantic accent
@heavymetalbassist5
3 жыл бұрын
yall ever notice Sandy and Stephen look healthier the longer they moderate the show
@SpeccyMan
10 ай бұрын
You didn't notice it is Sandi with an I!
@Bitterswheat
2 жыл бұрын
for those wondering: the average lifespan of a pigeon is 6 years
@pattytrojanmaust4375
3 жыл бұрын
Pigeons never go to the movies because they go to the bathroom every 15 minutes and would have to wait for a movie to go to DVD in order to finally see it. That way they can pause.
@Kelly_C
3 жыл бұрын
9:41 ah, so maryland
@Original50
3 жыл бұрын
These outroes are so funny. There she is wearing what I would call a Frisian Dish-Dash! Where's the sou'wester?!
@mattgilbert7347
Жыл бұрын
We need more pigeon representation in the arts! We need pigeon-friendly media with higher frame rates!
@marycanary86
3 жыл бұрын
harrison J ford?? WAIT A BLINKING MINUTE. are you saying terry pratchett put a harrison ford joke in "good omens"??
@rooneye
3 жыл бұрын
0:43 why does the newer Harrison Ford star look more older and weathered than the older one?
@Dave1507
3 жыл бұрын
maybe the older one died younger??
@rooneye
3 жыл бұрын
@@Dave1507 Wait what? The silent guy had his star put there in 1960. Indiana was in 2003. You'd think silent Harrison's would look way more weathered. I guess it's just location and people walking on it and shit.
@Dave1507
3 жыл бұрын
@@rooneye oh, you meant the actual star, not the person "Filmstar" my bad, i totally missread that
@Dave1507
3 жыл бұрын
@@rooneye walking and touching, probably..
@tomconnors8165
4 ай бұрын
Maybe the popularity and traffic has worn it down. I also thought you meant the actors picture and came into the replies to explain how pictures and time work.
@sharonelias-hudnall5550
3 жыл бұрын
Saw psycho in October 1960
@AndrewHughes32
Жыл бұрын
They missed an opportunity for a speckled Jim reference
@zapkvr
2 жыл бұрын
How does that faster frame rate affect your perception of time?
@steppenhenge
3 жыл бұрын
no wonder my pigeons still aren't satisfied with my 240hz monitor
@prollins6443
3 жыл бұрын
An addition to the pigeons segment, they always said dogs couldn't watch tv. But has the advancement of technology let dogs see what's going on the television when we watch movies or tv shows? My dogs always try to attack the tv when an animal shows up on the screen!
@FlippytheMasterofPie
3 жыл бұрын
Modern TVs have a higher refresh rate (that’s the Hz that a lot of TVs advertise on the box) that makes it easier to see things although it’s my understanding that what they do see is still blurred somewhat.
@durvsh
3 жыл бұрын
Hello 'Whoever manages this account' Please can you raise the audio levels. It very difficult to hear these on my speakers and I don't face this issue on any other channel on KZitem.
@chorusofoddities
3 жыл бұрын
And noone else has had the problem, turn up your volume, mine is on the 3rd lowest and it works fine
@chorusofoddities
3 жыл бұрын
Also it's the official account
@ppleeatpple
3 жыл бұрын
A lot of people have this same issue and have been asking for years. It's a running joke people grab headphones to watch QI videos
@Farzlepot
3 жыл бұрын
We're finally making monitors that will appeal to pigeons.
@benwakefield93
3 ай бұрын
Gotta love how you need to be half Indian to do the accent 😂
@Tmanaz480
2 жыл бұрын
Maybe Trevor would like the Gus Van Sant version.
@tiaxanderson9725
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone else a bit disappointed that they didn't actually tell you why a pigeon wouldn't enjoy the movies? They'd be watching The Matrix and thinking "When is something going to happen?" Really? So if a gust of wind blows a leaf past pigeon 1 really fast it'd think "Oh look, a leaf in the wind" but a second pigeon when the wind is much less strong so the leaf gently glides past would think "Damn it, I'm in front of the telly again!"? Horse sheit. The point is, that the people who write QI are apparently *ancient* and it used to be that in movie theaters there was an old timey actual movie projector all the way in the back in a separate room projecting the film; the technical workings of the film projector is the reason why pigeons "wouldn't like movies". You'd have a reel with little rectangles on them, the actual images -individual frames of the movie. These images would be put between a light source and a kind of viewfinder window and thus project the image onto the wall at the front of the theater. Now you can't just pull the film past the light source because you'd see the movement of the frames on the big screen. On both sides of the frames would be a row square holes that would line up with 4 square pins around the viewfinder to make sure the image was in place and couldn't move and between the light source and the film would be a sort of flywheel?; the shutter. It would block the light from the source for a duration of it's rotation and let light through for the rest. So when the shutter blocks the light these 4 hooks would pull the image off the pegs in front of the view, pull the reel one frame down and push the next frame back onto the pegs and then the end of the shutter was reached so it would allow the light back through. Now I *know* there was some sort of prototype where the shutter would have 1 single section that blocks the light and 1 that allows it through, but since such a system would be inherently unstable (i.e. that's how most simple hardware that needs to vibrate vibrates) which is something you don't want with movies. I also *know* that while less pleasant to watch, you can get the illusion of moving images with ~16 frames per second. So it's possible that this 1 shutter version was simply rotating slow enough to allow this to work. But I *also know* that there's a working version of one that has multiple sections on the shutter which means that as long as it's symmetrical it would be stable. So maybe the single shutter was in use and the multiple section shutter was an improvement, or that prototype was immediately improved upon by using the multiple section version and that is what everybody has... But the point is, when the shutter rotates it blocks the light from the light source for longer than it does not. My memory says 2/3rds of the time, but it could also be 5/8ths or something. It, however, blocks the light longer than it does not. So *pigeons wouldn't like movies because they'd be looking at a black screen for **_most of the time_** !*
@alanmclean8196
3 жыл бұрын
‘QI presents...best of films and movies.’ So what’s the difference between a film and a movie? (Asking for a friend...)
@DrWhoFanJ
3 жыл бұрын
Films are shot on film; movies are shot on tape or digital.
@scubaguy007
3 жыл бұрын
The average life of a pigeon is six years. Of course I had to Google it!
@sophitsa79
3 жыл бұрын
People who are interested in robotics I'm sure would be interested in the research on pigeons' sight
@SpeccyMan
10 ай бұрын
I'm interested in robotics and remarkably disinterested when it comes to pigeons.
@sophitsa79
10 ай бұрын
@@SpeccyMan 🤣
@paulwallis7586
3 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't be a bit of liability for a pigeon to go to a movie, and then have to come back again and again?
@kurt5079
Жыл бұрын
That's why pigeons are pc gamers.
@oscarcacnio8418
Жыл бұрын
Damn it, I was about to make the exact same joke! I mean, it is such low-hanging fruit that the pigeons have probably gotten to it anyway, but still!
@no_peace
2 жыл бұрын
It's not true but I really like it
@Larkstream
2 жыл бұрын
My brain doesn't understand the pigeon thing. I get the whole frames per second but when I imagine it surely a pigeon perceives time the same as us so the whole slideshow thing doesn't make sense. I literally can't imagine what it must look like to a pigeon. Unless they don't perceive time as we do. Does that make any sense to anybody else?
@MindMessed
3 жыл бұрын
Holy Shit.... Is that Trevor Noah?!?!?
@patricksechowski2134
3 жыл бұрын
And not a soul knew Trevor would end up being an icon himself
@Advent3546
3 жыл бұрын
Spoiler alert Trevor: Psycho came out 60 years ago
@ChrisisisB
Жыл бұрын
Cant hear what they are saying because of laughter and no subtitles. 😢
@ticketyboo2456
10 ай бұрын
3:03 Wig alert😂
@b_uppy
3 жыл бұрын
Not just good eyes, butbthe brain power to process it...
@petejones879
2 жыл бұрын
Ooh I now wanna feed popcornbto pigeons see if Richard was right
@tordeskilbo
3 жыл бұрын
Could you make a video showing all the Randi-Scandies?
@renzo6490
3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if a typical teen, today, would find ''Psycho'' at all scary...
@AnnaAnna-uc2ff
2 ай бұрын
Tricksy!
@lonewolf4215
5 ай бұрын
1:32 dont remind Stephen of speckled jim!
@davidthompson6834
Жыл бұрын
God bless Linda smith
@ceriphillipstalks5091
Жыл бұрын
Wasn't it hersheys chocolate sauce, not boscos?
@lawrencecalablaster568
3 жыл бұрын
Is some specific reason why Stephen dressed like that in the first season, or did he just like polo shirts?
@marycanary86
3 жыл бұрын
i guess he was still finding his style
@lilymarinovic1644
3 жыл бұрын
And the others were all wearing tshirts- except Alan. I noticed it too.
@chorusofoddities
3 жыл бұрын
Editor of this should have featured
@IronicSonics
2 жыл бұрын
Hmm..DVDs are only 480P so would look way worse than on a cinema one would imagine
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