“A couple walks towards the camera, a sidewalk air-vent pushes the woman’s dress up. In this cine-reassessment, the action is simultaneously both speeded up and slowed down. Overall progression is prolonged, so that a minute of recorded life-action takes ten minutes now to pass onscreen. The street-action meets with a need to see more, and there descends upon the event a sudden storm of investigative technique in the form of rapid churning of film-frames.”Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter, the pioneering motion picture director for Thomas Edison's production company. Porter's 1901 movie What Happened on 23rd Street was advertised in the Edison Catalog as "a winner and sure to please," offering a glimpse of a "young lady's skirts suddenly raised to an almost unreasonable height, greatly to her horror and much to the amusement of the newsboys, bootblacks, and passersby." In his revision, Jacobs stretches the film to thirteen times its original length. The use of slow motion is a teasing promise to reveal more of the iconic skirt-billowing scene; however, the strobe effect, crucial to Jacobs' 3-D technique, obscures the action.