CAn someone identify the firearm the Eurasian soldier is using in this clip? It's like a wierd SMG with a drum AROUND the barrel, similar to the Sea Bee gun.The clip is from the 1956 adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
It's basically impossible to make out useful detail from that snippet of that colorized upload. Using a b&w copy and going frame-by-frame to the last frame before the bodies will recover some detail.Timecode is around 24:40. Previous line of dialogue:>Brothers, we are at war with the people of Eurasia, the vile and ruthless aggressors who have committed countless atrocities and who are guilty of every beastial crime a human being can commit.
>>61990515Looks like a Lewis gun with a cap on the end of the air cooling jacket to make it look more science fictiony.
>>61990749Took your advice and did a frame-by-frame viewing and snapped a couple of images.
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>>61990968I dled it and did the same, I just didn't post it for you yet. lmoa
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>>61990975haha, i didn't do EVERY frame, but i think i picked out a few with the best contrast and angles>>61990978
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>>61990992this is the final frame the weapon appears on screen
>>61990877A cap? pardon my ignorance.
>>61990987Here's mkv from the copy I grabbed, which is the magnet with hash>37B87C57643551A687E09F9B87837BB3892ACCE7Normal speed, codec-copied from the source:https://files.catbox.moe/jkojpm.mkvSame frames, but forced to play at 1/3rd the rate:https://files.catbox.moe/f5cejk.mkvThe extra crap at the beginning is bcuz you can't losslessly trim shit without a keyframe, and there wasn't a good one right at this section (video arcana, dw about it).webm is webm of the first mkv.
>>61991011>https://files.catbox.moe/jkojpm.mkvThank you so much for the effort your video is much cleaner than my clip<<---this here is the final frame in your better clip, it shows most of the gun
>>61991011I concur with anon that it looks like a lewis gun with a fancy thing stuck on front. I believe the box is doubling as "futuristic" and part of the cinematic muzzle sparker, which is that thing you can see sticking out the front that runs all the way back to the trigger. This is a purely practical effect, activating by the extra holding the prop. I'm fuzzy on how they commonly did this type of effect at the time, but the disc on the front is likely hiding a radial spark-belt mechanism, the kind used in old handheld children's toys commonly called variations of things like>friction sparklers>spinning sparklers>sparkler wheelsBasically, when he pulls the trigger (or activates something near it), he's sparking the igniter for a little torch or something to that effect.
>>61991042*activated by the extra
>>61991034Honestly those "restorations" on youtube are criminally bad by current upscaling and colorization algo-wizardry standards. Effort is effort, but man. Someone taking the time to source a high-end B&W scan for a new colorization would definitely be making a huge improvement over what seems to be available rn.
>>61991042Thanks much for the input, after anon mentioned the Lewis Gun i did notice that the sight that stuck up was highly visible so that's most likely what it is. Also thanks for the lesson on old cinema practical effects, I didn't know any of that lol
>>61991069Here's a propane-powered ma deuce. Still done today. https://files.catbox.moe/h73mhp.mp4
