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silent speed

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silent speed [′sī·lənt ′spēd]
(engineering)
The speed at which silent motion pictures are fed through a projector, equal to 16 frames per second (sound-film speed is 24 frames per second).
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The tests were shot at sound speed (twenty-four frames per second), but Warhol wanted them projected at silent speed (sixteen flames per second), so they take longer to see than they did to make: They retard time.
"Andy Warhol: Screen Tests": Moma Qns, New York by Koestenbaum, Wayne / Artforum International
2--ran in AV edition only) Alex Tessier, 10, takes aim in a game called Silent Speed Ball in a city recreation-study program after school at Lancaster Elementary.
BEATING BOREDOM; KIDS VOLUNTEER TO STAY AFTER SCHOOL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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