How these are made
A continuous flight is a claim about the place it flies through: that it is one operation, not six departments. One visible seam and the claim collapses — so the seams are the part that gets the work.
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Seams are one file
Each shot ends on the exact image the next one begins with, because the two shots are anchored to the same still. Nothing is matched by eye.
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Scroll is the playhead
Scroll distance is proportional to running time, so travel reads as fast and arrival reads as a pause. Every stage has to make sense on its own, and backwards.
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One saturated colour
The world is warm stone grey and near-achromatic. Exactly one object carries colour, and it is the one you are following.
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Nothing is named
No real port, operator, shipping line, livery or flag appears in frame. Facility figures go on as overlays in post, so they can be corrected without regenerating a frame.