Slow television
[2] Warhol's production process involved splicing and looping of film that he had originally shot in 3-4 minute lengths.
[citation needed] The latest evolution of the concept started with the NRK's coverage of the longest driver's eye view at that time, showing the complete 7-hour train ride along the Bergen Line (Norwegian: Bergensbanen) on 27 November 2009.
[4] It was followed by the live coverage of the Hurtigruten ship MS Nordnorge during its 134-hour voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes starting on 16 June 2011.
[5] Both events received extensive attention in both Norwegian and foreign media, and were considered a great success with coverage numbers exceeding all expectations and record ratings for the NRK2 channel.
Starting in 2009 NRK, Norway's public service broadcaster, has produced several slow television programs that have gained high ratings.
Four cameras were used to produce the documentary, showing both exterior and interior views, along with interviews with crew, train conductors, historians, past workers and passengers.
The show depicted about 200 choirs, including around 3,000-4,000 singers and soloists, performing the entire contents of the Church of Norway's national hymnal, published in 2013.
[31] During the 134 hour broadcast of the Hurtigruten trip, the show received massive attention among Norwegian followers in the social media arena.
During the broadcast, cities competed in arranging the greatest welcoming committee at the different harbours and three different wedding proposals were captured during the 136 hours.
Korean media showed interest in the exhibition, characterising it as "the most creative PR stunt they've heard of in a long time".
[43] According to OzTAM's overnight preliminary ratings, the SBS telecast of the three hour programme averaged more than 400,000 viewers, with most of the audience being in Melbourne.
[45][46] In November 2018, SBS announced a series of four Slow TV programmes, covering rail, road, canal and river, to be broadcast in January 2019.
[49][50][51] On 1 January 2019, "El viaje"[52] brought this genre to Spain for the first time with the full and uninterrupted broadcast on Aragón TV of the popular "Canfranero" [es], the railway that links Zaragoza with Canfranc on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the inauguration of the Pyrenean international station.
Viewers were shown 218.39 kilometres of the train's complete route from its departure from Zaragoza to its arrival in the Pyrenees, the landscapes of the capital's urban environment, the extensive fields of the Huesca basin and the valleys of the Gállego and Aragón rivers.
[53][54] Barcelona's local TV station, betevé, features a series of short programs titled "Slow.
"[55] These programs, typically around 10 minutes in length, utilize a fixed action camera to capture various aspects of daily life in the city, such as a metro journey, a worker's routine, or other leisurely-paced scenes.
The "Slow" series is available on betevé's YouTube channel, and is frequently used in the station's broadcast schedule to fill gaps between programs, thus avoiding the need for excessive advertisements.
[56] France 4, on 31 March 31, 2014, aired a nine-hour programme of a man walking backwards through Tokyo, "Tokyo Reverse",[57][58] directed by Simon Buisson and Ludovic Zuili, and on October 3, 2015, the same channel aired a six-hour programme, "Slow Moscow",[59][60] directed by Romain Quirot, following in real time a couple of dancers strolling through the streets of Moscow.
[61] It featured the journey along the entirety of Iceland's Route 1, which loops around the perimeter of the country, while playing a live-generated remix of the band's song "Óveður".
On 10 April, PRIME TV aired another production, an edit of a month-long sea voyage from Stewart Island to Antarctica.
The production used 22 cameras installed at several sites, including at river crossings frequently used by the animals in their annual journey to summer grounds.
[67] On 1 January 2024, Portugal public broadcaster RTP aired on its main television channel, RTP1, the documentary "Linha do Douro – Um Património Sobre Carris" with over 3 hours and 30 minutes of uninterrupted footage of a 171,5 km train journey across the Douro line, from São Bento railway station in Porto to Pocinho railway station, aboard a CP class 1400 locomotive.
[68] French artist and composer Jérôme Joy developed an ever-evolving streaming online application,[69] NoCinema, with multiple cameras in different sites around the world[70] offering a project between documentary and fiction and generating infinite audio-visual sequences.
[71] On January 1, 2007, West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers[72] in Dorset, England, began the one-year live streaming of a round of Westcombe Dairy cheddar maturing on their shelf.
[73][74][75] To illustrate the wordiness of the terms and conditions on an average phone, the Norwegian Consumer Council staged a reading of 30 such legal documents in a session that started on 24 May 2016 and was streamed for more than 24 hours.
