Welcome to Hollywood, 1913! This is a hack made in 24 hours at Hollywood Hack Day 2013 by Oscar Celma and Ching-Wei Chen. Given any movie, we convert it to a silent film by: 1) Extracting the frames 2) Converting them to B&W and applying a Sepia effect 3) Adding scratches and noise 4) Randomly removing some frames 5) Subsampling to 15 FPS 6) Selecting old songs (jazzy, 20s, etc.) based on Gracenote metadata All done using Python, PIL, and ffmpeg. No video editing software was used in the making of this film. Take that, Final Cut Pro! Examples: - "A Spaniard in Hollywood": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTnhsJOsguU - Pulp Fiction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTMR5QilV88 - King Kong (2005): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URyJS6Ph_oo https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/hollywood-hack-day-2013/hacks/the-silent-treatment

1. “The Silent Treatment”
Hollywood Hack Day (2013)
Òscar Celma
@ocelma

2. THE SILENT TREATMENT

3. THE SILENT TREATMENT
Speed-up to 15 FPS & Randomly remove frames

4. THE SILENT TREATMENT
Using Subtitles (.srt)

5. THE SILENT TREATMENT

6. THE SILENT TREATMENT

7. THE SILENT TREATMENT
Welcome to Hollywood
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1913!

8. THE SILENT TREATMENT
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“A Spaniard in Hollywood” (Directed by @cweichen)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTnhsJOsguU
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“Pulp Fiction”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTMR5QilV88