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There's something I've never quite understood about video cameras. Many a TV program or home video since the '70s has a frame-per-second rate that looks darn close to real-life motion (think of any game show from this period), yet movies invariably have it slower. Generally speaking, in fact, the more expensive fare will not have lifelike FPS. And sometimes when there's a show within a show, like on an episode of "Seinfeld," it switches to lifelike.

The only explanation I can conceive is that fewer FPS makes a film editor's job much easier. But I wouldn't have expected the lavish and often perfectionist industry to cut corners like that. Besides, movies have more freedom to extend their deadlines than TV shows. And when I consider the special effects that were used on some "lifelike" shows, I'd expect them to have required about as much editing as "Seinfeld" or "Friends." (Oh, right: Those two shows weren't super-expensive to cover expenses, just comedians who mostly have little popularity in other endeavors.)