Using same idea

It's sci fi, right? So these aren't magical pictures that move, they're frames that play looped video. Or am I missing something?

I guess if it's sci-fi then they would be special 3D holographic moving pictures, rather than magical fantasy movie pictures as seen in HP. Very big difference there, me thinks.

Hasn't the moving pictures in picture frames been done by other writers? Why do I think I read a story with this happening in it? (Pre JK, I mean.)

I shall rack my brain and try to remember.

Edit add: Yeah, other people say the same thing when I google it - that the idea of moving portraits in literature is not something JK invented, but I still can't recall or find any books with it. Maybe I am imagining I read a story like this when I was a child. (I was a child in the 1950's-early 60's.)

If this is sci-fi, then those are simply monitors on the walls. You can connect them to the network or, as WildScribe said, let them loop through a video. Some go a step further and make the whole wall a single monitor.

I remember a scene in Stephen King's It that used a moving photo long before HP did.

Similar to this is the holographic images on the tombstones at the end of the movie Serenity. And I'm sure there are other books/movies I just can't think of atm.

My goodness, this has been done in Back to the Future Part II and Minority Report. It would be crazy not to!

I'm pretty sure this was done in Box of Delights (1950s).

I think the moving pictures thing was done way before HP. So, I think you're fine.

Uh, these exist in real life . . . they're digital picture frames, and you can loop short videos to make them just like the pictures in Harry Potter.

They'd be practically antique in an SF story, lol.

exactly

No point in putting in old technology. One the dot.com rich kids has huge digital picture frames hung though out his house, and changes the images depending on his guests preferences.

No point is mentioning technology if it's common place.

Chasing the Horizon said:

Uh, these exist in real life . . . they're digital picture frames, and you can loop short videos to make them just like the pictures in Harry Potter.

They'd be practically antique in an SF story, lol.

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Chasing the Horizon said:

Uh, these exist in real life . . . they're digital picture frames, and you can loop short videos to make them just like the pictures in Harry Potter.

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Some dislike certain formats, and I can't get some of my images to display fully (there's a border around one picture), so they are less amusing than I thought they would be... The tinny, echoey speakers are useless as well.

bkwriter said:

So I have this idea of a scene to put in my book pictures hanging on the wall with moving pictures. It's a sci-fi book. But I don't want people to think I'm ripping off HP scene. Should I just make the scene my own?

I hope this is the right form,

Thanks

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Harry wasn't ripping off Total Recall, where they had the whole-wall moving mural, which wasn't ripping off Bradbury's The Veldt, where the kids had an interactive Africa Room.....folks MAY identify it with HP, and if you have a few other similarities that may help to cement that in their minds, but in and of itself, "moving pictures" is not a new idea at all.