24 fps

⌈       ⌉   ⌈       ⌉   ⌈       ⌉   ⌈       ⌉
⌊       ⌋   ⌊       ⌋   ⌊       ⌋   ⌊       ⌋     . . .

⌈	⌉
Frames flick by	like fluttering butterflies
coloring the screen's	mise en scène.
⌊	⌋
⌈	⌉
Panoramas zoom	in to smaller rooms
where the screen massages	the mind with montages.
⌊	⌋
⌈	⌉
Talking heads use time	to reason or rhyme,
while music replaces	the silent spaces.
⌊	⌋
⌈	⌉
Point-of-View flows	as if it's in the know
of images to come	—its will be done:
⌊	⌋
⌈	⌉
Hitchcockian cutting,	John Fordian strutting,
Welles' Olympian tasks,	Kubrick's plethoric masks.
⌊	⌋

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24 fps (frames per second) is the standard frame rate of films shown in movie theaters.