It's a feature of the camera. Shot with strobe lights in sync with the film. You can sort of simulate it with many video cameras with a "sports" setting. Again, really fast shutter speed.

As far as doing it in post, try a slight strobe.

- Rick

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Aww, C'mon Zippy. Don't start talking like that. There's lots of people in this forum who think your smart. You've got that show that was picked up to work on, you've got those couple of Oscars to remind you how good you are. Just maybe it's true, your recent posts don't have that Zip like your earlier ones....where the hell am I going with this?

This has nothing to do with strobe lights in sync with the film. I interviewed Janusz Kaminski (Spielberg's Cinematographer) and he noted that along with physical lens manipulation and stripping the coatings off the lenses to allow the light to bounce around a bit more to emulate the cameras of the 40's. He also shot at either a 45 or 90 degree shutter during the battle scenes. I know there is something on the web with him pretty much describing this same thing.

In video it's harder to do this and make it look like film but you can emulate it pretty well with an extremely fast shutter. You need a lot of light. Notice how pretty much every "hyperreal" scene in a film is done outside? Lots of light. The "sports setting" is good if you have a consumer camera but for most 3-chippers, you want a fast, fast shutter. Then you could drop it on a 24p timeline with a 3:2 pulldown and it should look a bit less like video.

Mike