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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Dan Harkless (talk | contribs) at 23:03, 20 June 2007 (→Add images of PXL-2000 video: Took a screenshot of a PXL-2000 film and was going to upload it, but had to abort due to the stringent Non-free Content rules on Wikipedia.). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Add images of PXL-2000 video

It would be fantastic if some still images could be added. It would demonstrate the visual quality of these camera.

  • Where (and how) would you suggest getting one? Seems to me what you'd have to do is a) find a working PXL-2000 and b) find some way of running it through a modern RF modulator. Haikupoet 19:17, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • I think I remember seeing a PXL 2000 recorded video on the Nirvana With The Lights Out DVD. Is this a PXL video?
    • There's a pretty good still on the already linked-to page http://www.members.aol.com/bunchastuf/souvenir.html. It's blown up from its true 120x90 resolution, but since that approximates what happens when the footage is scaled up to NTSC resolution, that's perhaps appropriate. I bet the filmmaker wouldn't mind a still from his film being used as an example on the Wikipedia article. Hmm, the aspect ratio isn't 4:3, though -- wonder if it's cropped... Otherwise, someone could just take a screenshot from a PXL-2000 film -- perhaps one that preserves the gutterboxing like Eli Elliott's http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWfM-_SlZIA. --Dan Harkless 22:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Okay, I went ahead and took a representative screenshot from that video on YouTube that I mentioned (after hitting the button in the YouTube Flash video player that de-stretches the video back down to the native 320x240 resolution), but when I was preparing to upload it I ran across Wikipedia:Non-free_content. Sounds like the image would just be deleted because there's probably some PXL-2000 film somewhere that's been released into the public domain. I'd send a message to Eli Elliott asking if we could use the still I took, but I see the copyright on that particular film is owned by his friend Phil Chamberlin, who has passed away. Unfortunately I'm out of time for working on this further.

Killer Me

The film Killer Me, was filmed with a Fisher-Price PXL2000. If you want more information on the film, it's at:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273311/

The sleeve of the DVD also, describes the camera's role in creating the film:

"Writer and director, Zachary Hansen created most of the film's music score, with a children's toy called the Fisher Price PXL2000. The pixel camera captures it's grainy images on a standard audiocassette. Playing back these tapes on a cassette deck, Hansen created eerie, distorted sounds that are as unsettling as the film's images. Also shot with the pixel camera and reprocessed on an Avid, the ghostly images of the opening title sequence provide the audience with a graphic enterance into the disturbed world of Killer Me."


Eli Elliott

Several PXL movies from prolific pxl filmmaker Eli Elliott are screening online here: www.youtube.com/Elienation

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