Cape Beach.3

Actual Elapsed Time: 14 hours (50,400 seconds)

The tides flows in and out at a bay on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The tides complete one full cycle of two high and two low tides every 25 hours. In this clip, which displays 14 hours of time in just 10 seconds, we can see the tide rush in, hold at high tide for awhile, and then rush back out. If you look closely, you can see that the tide starts to flow back in as night falls. This clip, which speeds up the action by 5,000 times, also shows how weather changes over the course of a day. In the morning, the bay is shrouded by a thick mist. As the sun rises higher in the sky, the mist burns off. Heat from the sun warms the ground and causes warm, moist air to rise. By late afternoon, the warm air has collided with colder air high in the sky to produce clouds.

How This Clip Was Made:

This time-lapse video was created by shooting 14 hours of regular video. Only 1 of roughly every 5,000 frames of video was digitized and transferred to a computer. When the transferred frames are displayed, the action is shown at about 5,000 times normal speed. Production: Bob Hone. Post-Production: Brennan Doyle.

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