30Early black-and-white film (1920s)
flickering, scratched silent-era film
1990s camcorder footage is soft, noisy standard-definition home video.
32Live-action home video from a 1990s consumer camcorder: real people, a soft standard-definition picture, slightly smeared colours with a faint magenta tint, video noise in the shadows, a bright blown-out sky and slightly unsteady handheld framing, a warm amateur feel. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a girl of about ten with short brown hair in a yellow T-shirt waters potted tomato plants with a small tin watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, three-quarter view, the camcorder held by hand. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and water splashes onto the leaves. 2–4s: a white paper airplane glides in from screen left and lands on the rim of the pot beside her. 4–6s: she sets the can down, picks up the paper airplane and turns it over in her hands. 6–8s: she looks up and out over the city rooftops and smiles as the wind ruffles the leaves and her hair. Throughout: it stays soft, noisy standard-definition camcorder video with smeared colour and unsteady handheld framing, one continuous take.
Live-action home video from a 1990s consumer camcorder: real people, a soft standard-definition picture, slightly smeared colours with a faint magenta tint, video noise in the shadows, a bright blown-out sky and slightly unsteady handheld framing, a warm amateur feel.
A blown-out sky and a faint magenta tint date it better than any year in the prompt.
30flickering, scratched silent-era film
31grainy, warm 4:3 home-movie film with light leaks
33unstaged, breathing handheld in natural light