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Originally posted by waveguide3
Apart from the convenient sound track, I was worried about the zooms. Something about them tells me they are afterFX. I haven't even figured how to download the video to my drive yet, but maybe someone who has can comment. [edit on 4-3-2008 by waveguide3]
According to Daniel 5:1–31, during a drunken feast, King Belshazzar of Babylon takes sacred golden and silver vessels, which had been removed from the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem by his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar. Using these holy items, the King and his court praise 'the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone'. Immediately, the disembodied fingers of a human hand appear and write on the wall of the royal palace the words מנא ,מנא, תקל, ופרסין , (MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN (or UPHARSIN in a slightly different interpretation of the word)). Although usually left untranslated in English translations of Daniel, these words are known Aramaic names of measures of currency: MENE, a mina, TEKEL, a spelling of shekel, PERES, half a mena. (A mina would be about 50 shekels.)
Despite various inducements, none of the royal magicians or advisors could interpret the omen. The King sends for Daniel, an exiled Jew, taken himself from Jerusalem, who had served in high office under Nebuchadnezzar. The meaning that Daniel decrypts from these words is based on passive verbs corresponding to the measure names. Rejecting offers of reward, Daniel warns the King of the folly of his arrogant blasphemy before reading the text (vs 25–28).
And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, and PARSIN. This is the interpretation of the matter: MENE (literally a "monetary toll"), God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; TEKEL (literally a "tokenary weight"), you have been weighed on the scales and found wanting; PARSIN (literally a "division" or "portion"), your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians. (NRSV)
PARSIN is additionally a pun on the word for Persians.
That very night King Belshazzar is slain, and Darius the Mede becomes King. (This reflects the historically verifiable defeat of the Babylonian Empire by Persia).
05:03 - 05:35 Dialogue:
"i don't know what it is...it don't look like no star to me" - videographer
"it's not a star...i'm looking at the rest of 'em and they all have a [silver reflection]" - person 2
Originally posted by Gonjo
reply to post by from downunder
Considering your quote actually answered your own question I fail to see your point in actually asking it. But even though im obviously repeating myself...
The zoom in the clip is extremely smooth and fast. considering we are supposedly looking an object flying high and far in the sky there is no way it can be that fast and that smooth if it was an actual zooming action of a camera filming an object high and far in the sky. The effect you see on the clip happens quite nicely when you are filming a tv-monitor from a very close distance.[edit on 4/3/08 by Gonjo]
Originally posted by tommyknockers
This frame jumped out at me.
Originally posted by MystikMushroom
Wow...
Squiggly lines with a low frame rate. I could make this with imovie in under an hour. Just use a separate audio track to make it sound like both were recorded together.
See what you want to see...I guess...
I'm just amazed at how easily people *want* to believe.