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The Hobbit films ran at 48 frames a second

Peter Jackson doubled the usual rate to cut blur in 3D screenings Peter Jackson shot The Hobbit trilogy at 48 frames per second, twice the traditional rate, and released it in that format in selected cinemas from 2012. The higher rate smooths fast motion, but many viewers found the look unnaturally sharp and compared it to video. Most cinemas showed the ordinary 24-frame version. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Peter Jackson doubled the usual rate to cut blur in 3D screenings. The figure is taken from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.