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the trick of stealing hours from time so you can watch a flower argue with gravity.
means a filming technique that compresses a long stretch of time into a short clip by capturing frames at intervals and playing them back at normal speed.
from pioneered in the early 1900s by biologist arthur c. pillsbury and popularized by french filmmaker georges méliès's cinematic tricks, then supercharged by nature documentaries wanting to show plants moving like they mean it.
opposite trickslow motion stretches time instead of squeezing it
interval mathone frame every few seconds equals days in minutes
early useused to prove plants grow toward light
modern cousinhyperlapse adds camera movement through space too