> H. G. Wells wrote a story along those lines, but it wasn't that time was stopped but that time was extremely slowed. The main character was in a park was watching people more or less frozen. The observation was made that sometimes people's facial expressions look strange, funny, or even unsettling when they're frozen at a random point instead of part of a fluid gesture of body language -- particularly in the case of one guy who was in the middle of a wink. There was also some concern about not moving too quickly, or the friction with the air would burn him up. I don't remember much more of that story, but I'm curious now to go back and read it again. I don't even remember the title, unfortunately.

This is where DVD players come in handy. Unlike VCRs, when you press the 'Pause' button, there are no fuzzy lines that run across the screen. It is really as if you froze time in the movie. Try doing it when a very popular actor is on the screen and then move the movie forward frame by frame to catch some very interesting facial movements. I have often wondered why the tabloids and entertainment magazines don't make more use of this.

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