William Skaggs wrote:
Well, there you go. Those movies were created at a time when movie
projectors ran slower, so they weren't designed to play as quickly as they are usually shown nowadays.
Totally off-topic, but one of the strangest things I ever read was an early technical discussion in the SMPTE Journal about what speed movies should be projected at. Note that they had already decided what speed to film at - the question was how much faster the playback should be. For some reason, making them the same didn't seem to be an option.
-- David Hodson -- this night wounds time