Created May 24, 1996
Last modified July 1, 2003
Poster movies are a neat new feature of QuickTime 3.0, which was released in beta form at the end of November, 1997, and was finally shipped by Apple on Monday, March 30, 1998. You can find more information about it and download it from Apple's QuickTime site. [If you are on the Wellesley campus-wide network, you can download it much quicker from our local NTM file server.]
If you don't yet have QuickTime 3.0 or later-- especially if you've got a Windows 95/NT machine -- this may not work.
When you first load this page, a single-frame "poster" movie should be displayed below. When you click on this poster movie, it is replaced by the full 1.9MB movie -- an embedded QuickTime "faststart" movie -- a 24 second slide show with 44kHz, stereo, 16bit sound, compressed with MP3.The data rate is 80.2k/sec. It's about 1.9 MB, but, since it's a faststart movie, you don't have to wait for the whole thing to download -- you can click the play button as soon as you wanna.
So start out by clicking on this image below.
For those without the QuickTime plug-in, here's a version of this slide show that's just a straight QuickTime movie.
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Here you can listen to Madeleine sing-- but this sound-only movie requires QuickTime 3.0, as it uses the new QualComm PureVoice compression. The file is 24 seconds long, with a sample rate of 22.05 kHz and a sample size of 16 bits, but is only 119KB, at a data rate of only 4.7k/sec. |
The same sound as uncompressed .WAV file. 62 KB at a data rate of 43 k/sec.
This is an older QuickTime movie of me morphing into my daughter when she was just an infant. The movie is 864 KB in size, and lasts about 15 seconds. You'll need an application that can play back QuickTime movies such as QuickTime Player or SimpleText.