# Anyone else notice the history channel's b/w photos when they move the camera?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-history-channels-b-w-photos-when-they-move-the-camera/204595
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 30, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-history-channels-b-w-photos-when-they-move-the-camera/204595 "2003-09-30T01:08:09Z")
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-history-channels-b-w-photos-when-they-move-the-camera/204595/1 "2003-09-30T01:08:09Z")
Has anyone else noticed recently that the History Channel attempts to make black and white photos appear to be in 3D as they pan across them by seperating the photgraph into a couple of layers and having them be moved at different speeds?
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### Author:  [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-history-channels-b-w-photos-when-they-move-the-camera/204595/2 "2003-09-30T01:23:24Z")
Hadn’t noticed that.
But I’ll keep an eye out for that effect the next time I watch Germany get blowed up good on some History Channel Documentary.
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### Author:  [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-history-channels-b-w-photos-when-they-move-the-camera/204595/3 "2003-09-30T03:10:24Z")
Yes.
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### Author:  [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2003, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-history-channels-b-w-photos-when-they-move-the-camera/204595/4 "2003-09-30T04:55:20Z")
So what do they put behind the parts that are blocked in the original photo? The concept doesn’t sound very historical to me.
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### Author:  [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-notice-the-history-channels-b-w-photos-when-they-move-the-camera/204595/5 "2003-09-30T12:55:05Z")
Its not historically acurate, its only purpose is to make a rather boring photograph into something that looks almost like video. They had a few other ways to pan across the photos in the past, usually covering about 1/4 to 1/2 of the photo then moving across to see the rest of the photo.
The new method is not at all alike the other methods.
Yes, this is boring.