History Main / Undercrank

* VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys plays this straight with one of the possible effects where Bonnie or Chica, when in the West and East Hall corners (respectively), will have their heads twitch unusually. It becomes especially apparent in later nights.

* VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys plays this straight with one of the possible effects where Bonnie or Chica, when in the West and East Hall corners (respectively), will have their heads twitch spastically. It becomes especially apparent in later nights.

* All of the zombies in the 2008 ''Film/DayOfTheDead'' remake are supernaturally fast and strong, which is most often represented by the actors having their movements sped up greatly in post-production in a comical manner.

* LetsPlay/{{Raocow}} will sometimes speed up some of the footage of his LetsPlay videos in order for them to fit in Website/YouTube's 11-minute (later upped to 15) limit. He calls this "chipmunk time". Even though [=YouTube=] no longer has a time limit, he still does this sometimes anyway because [[RuleOfFunny it's funny]].
** In a similar vein (and possibly a FollowTheLeader of Raocow), Let's Players playing PlatformHell games or ROM Hacks will sometimes also speed up footage of repeated failures.

* The blaxploitation movie ''TheHumanTornado'' severely undercranks every single "unimportant" fight scene, along with Dolemite's hilarious commentary.
* Used by the MarxBrothers, e.g. in ''A Night at the Opera'' to make Harpo's character run down the stairs unnaturally fast.

* In order to achieve the intense shots of the car bearing down on Brendan in {{Brick}}, the car was backed up slowly past the undercranked camera, then the film was reversed to give the impression of the car shooting towards the viewer.

* Used frequently in ''RequiemForADream'' during drug scenes..

** Inverted by BruceLee, whose scenes were ''over''cranked because he was so goddamn fast.

* Parodied in ''SurfsUp'' during the set-up for the surfing competition. During an undercranked montage of the set-up, the backing music speeds up faster and faster. At the end, one of the characters says "I feel lightheaded" in a chipmunk voice.

* Used quite noticeably for some fight scenes in ''{{Equilibrium}}''.

* All of the zombies in the 2008 ''DayOfTheDead'' remake are supernaturally fast and strong, which is most often represented by the actors having their movements sped up greatly in post-production in a comical manner.

* ''TheMunsters''

* Used in every episode of TheBigComfyCouch as part of the "10-Second Tidy."

* The ''[[TheClevelandShow Cleveland Show]]'' episode "Beer Walk" begins with a comedic TimeLapse that compresses roughly 48 hours into 30 seconds. Cleveland happily announces that the weekend has begun, takes off his pants, plops down on the couch with a considerable supply of beer and snacks, and turns on "a sporting event". As Cleveland sits motionless in front of the TV, Donna folds the laundry, chases Rallo around, re-upholsters a chair, cooks dinner (spaghetti) for the family, [[RuleOfFunny chops firewood in the living room,]] clears away a sea of empties left by Cleveland, dusts, vacuums, and finally collapses on the couch in exhaustion. Then Cleveland, who had been asleep, wakes up and says:

* The ''CarryOn'' movies.

* {{Music/Madonna}}'s "Ray Of Light" video.

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* Unfortunately quite obviously used in early episodes of ''HighlanderTheSeries'', especially in the pilot when they had to make Richard Moll look like a skilled and dangerous sword fighter. Yes, 'Bull' from ''Series/NightCourt''.

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* Used to make the chandelier appear as if it was falling faster in the 1925 Lon Chaney-starring adaptation of ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera''.

* For his FilmOfTheBook ''Film/{{Firefox}}'', ClintEastwood hired the same special-effects man, John Dykstra, to do the supersonic nap-of-the-earth fighter-jet chase footage as George Lucas hired to do the Endor speeder-bike sequence mentioned above. In the behind-the-scenes featurette, Dykstra said it was quite a struggle to find a place with enough land to do the sequence because like in ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', the camera was being cranked at 1 frame per second, '''on a Learjet'''

* Used in ''BladeRunner'' to emphasize Pris's temper-tantrum when she gets shot, and used again briefly near the end of the film, to make Roy Batty appear inhumanly fast as he darts across Rick Deckard's field of view. Rutger Hauer's actual movements were slow and deliberate, so as to (successfully) make the scene not ''look'' like it's undercranked.

* Unfortunately quite obviously used in early episodes of ''HighlanderTheSeries'', especially in the pilot when they had to make Richard Moll look like a skilled and dangerous sword fighter. Yes, 'Bull' from ''NightCourt''.

* Used in ''RoyalPains'' for montages, at least in the PilotEpisode.

* Often used in bursts in GoodEats, when Alton is doing something that would otherwise be boring, like stirring a bowl full of something.

* The first act of the ''DontTrustTheBInApartment23'' episode "Whatever it Takes ..." uses this technique to show three repetitive days in June and Chloe's life: Chloe comes in from her nights out, goes to bed, June gets up, watches TV on the couch all day, Chloe gets up, goes out, and the cycle starts again.

* Chase scenes in ''Film/StrangePsychokineticStrategy'' go really fast, and include many of the same gags that ''The Benny Hill Show'' employs.

* Used in some scenes in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' to make the Xenomorphs move with inhuman speed.

* Undercranking was used to create the signature head twitches of the 'demons' in JacobsLadder. This effect in turn was replicated several times in the SilentHill video game series.

* VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV: The trailer "Things will be different" used this effect on in-game scenes.
* ''SilentHill'', being heavily influenced by ''JacobsLadder'', uses a similar effect on some of its resident monsters, particularly in the third game.

* {{Raocow}} will sometimes speed up some of the footage of his LetsPlay videos in order for them to fit in Website/YouTube's 11-minute (later upped to 15) limit. He calls this "chipmunk time". Even though [=YouTube=] no longer has a time limit, he still does this sometimes anyway because [[RuleOfFunny it's funny]].

* Used frequently in ''TheThreeStooges'' shorts as a kind of special effect. Many of their signature gags are undercranked.

Undercranking involves filming at a slower frame rate so that the action is sped up when played back. Sometimes witnessed in car chases, especially on the 1960s ''{{Batman}}'' TV show. In the days when film cameras were hand-cranked, most operators were trained to slow down slightly whenever a punch was thrown, so that the blow would seem faster than it really was: almost all of Jackie Chan's martial arts movies make use of the same basic principle during the fight scenes to make the action seem more exciting. When shooting video, where the framerate cannot be manually controlled mid-shot, a similar effect can be produced in the edit suite by selectively deleting a single frame here and there.

* In "WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender" Aang does this after having a sip of Chi Enhancing Tea and goes all over the place on his Air Scooter. While riding around when he talks his voice is extremely high and very fast. He keeps going until he hits a pole.

* The ''[[TheClevelandShow Cleveland Show]]'' episode "Beer Walk" begins with a comedic TimeLapse that compresses roughly 48 hours into 30 seconds. Cleveland happily announces that the weekend has begun, takes off his pants, plops down on the couch with a considerable supply of beer and snacks, and turns on "a sporting event". As Cleveland sits motionless in front of the TV, Donna folds the laundry, chases Rallo around, re-upholsters a chair, cooks dinner (spaghetti) for the family, [[RuleOfFunny chops firewood in the living room,]] clears away a sea of empty beer bottles left by Cleveland, dusts, vacuums, and finally collapses on the couch in exhaustion. Then Cleveland, who had been asleep, wakes up and says:

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