Time-Lapse

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    A heavily under-cranked shot, usually taking 1 picture per second or less. Popular subjects of time-lapse are clouds, the moon, sunlight shining through a window, or a growing flower.

    May be part of a Time Passes Montage.

    Examples of Time-Lapse include:

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    • Often used on Transformers toy commercials when the actual figures' transformations are being demonstrated.

    Film - Animated

    Film - Live-Action

    Live-Action Television

    • It was used a few times in Life After People for plants growing.
    • A lot of the stuff built on MythBusters took several days to construct. It was an hour-long show. The narrator refers to it a few times as the editors' favorite trick.
    • The time-lapsed clouds variant was used frequently to show the passage of time (as well as to hint an the alien setting) in the nineties sci-fi drama Earth 2.
    • Used in-universe on an episode of Psych as a film student is recording the blooming of a rare plant. Shawn and Gus go through the frames to see if the camera captured a mummy escaping from a museum.

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