Old photo animation

A wide shot of several prints where only one has people moving in it. a wide shot of a dozen faded prints spread across a dining table, all of them still except one in the middle where three figures shift their weight and turn toward each other inside its white border, the other prints staying completely motionless so the difference is immediate, the paper tone and the table light unchanged, locked overhead camera

A wide move into a group photograph until the group begins to move. a wide shot of a large group portrait hanging in a hallway, the camera pushing slowly in until the frame and the mount leave the picture, the rows of figures then beginning to shuffle, adjust their jackets and turn their heads with the paper grain and the faded tone still across every face, the movement small and restrained throughout

A move into the photograph until its border leaves the frame and the scene lives. a faded print pinned to a plain wall, the camera pushing slowly in until the white border passes out of frame and only the image fills the picture, the boy in it then walking two steps and laughing with the paper grain and the faded tone still over everything, the depth in the scene opening slightly as the push continues, no colour returning

A photograph mounted on an album page moves while the page stays still. a print mounted with corner tabs on a thick album page, a hand turning the album to it, the couple in the photograph then beginning to sway and talk inside the mount while the album page, the tabs and the surrounding blank paper stay completely still, the faded tone of the print unchanged throughout, locked overhead camera

Two figures shift and blink while the white photo border stays fixed. a small faded print with a white deckled border lying on a wooden table, the two figures inside the image beginning to shift their weight, turn their heads and blink while the border, the paper grain and the faded sepia tone stay completely fixed, the movement staying strictly inside the edges of the print so the object is clearly still a photograph, locked overhead camera

A single face regains its natural colour while the rest of the print stays faded. a faded sepia print standing in a small frame on a windowsill, the face of the man at the centre slowly regaining its natural skin colour and beginning to smile while the rest of the print, the clothing, the background and the border, stays flat faded brown, the two states holding side by side within the same picture, locked camera

A wide shot where heavy damage stays fixed over a moving scene. a wide shot of a large damaged print laid on a light box, torn along one edge and marked with dark blotches, the street scene inside it coming alive with two figures walking and a shutter rolling up, while the tear, the blotches and the paper grain all stay fixed in place on the surface, locked camera

A crease across the print stays put while the person beneath it turns. a creased print held in two hands, a hard fold running diagonally across it and a corner missing, the woman in the picture turning her head and adjusting her collar while the crease stays exactly where it is on the paper and the missing corner stays missing, the damage sitting on top of the movement rather than bending with it, slow push in

A wide wall of faded prints where colour returns to a single frame. a wide shot of a wall of small framed prints, one frame near the centre slowly regaining natural colour in the faces inside it while the figures begin to move, every other frame on the wall staying flat faded brown and completely still, the difference between the warm live frame and its neighbours obvious, slow lateral track

Blotches and water marks hold in place over a moving group. a badly stained print lying on a kitchen counter, dark silvered blotches and a pale water mark spread across its surface, the group of four in the picture shifting position and one of them lifting a hand while every stain stays fixed on the paper exactly where it was, the stains passing over the moving faces without moving themselves, locked camera