Hurtigruten Second by Second

After the success of the 7-hour long TV broadcast from Bergensbanen, The Norwegian Broadcasting Company NRK ran, in the summer of 2011, the longest live TV broadcast in Norwegian history: The complete five and a half days long journey of Hurtigruten from Bergen, along the Norwegian coast and all the way up to Kirkenes in the North.

What if you could watch the whole long journey in “just” 4 hours and 24 minutes? Now you can, thanks to NRK’s publication of the bow camera view under the Creative Commons license.

“Hurtigruten” – NRK
http://nrkbeta.no/2011/06/16/hurtigruten

I have created a timelapse of the camera source, published by NRK. The timelapse runs at 25x of the normal speed, taking one frame from each second of the journey – thus the name of the work. The departure from each port and the next point of destinations are marked in the film by hardsubs. I decided not to add any soundtrack, letting the viewer choose the music they want to accompany this voyage.

Following is a 3 minute and 20 second on-site preview of the voyage:

The complete timelapse of the voyage is now available on the Odysee platform!

Highlights of the voyage:

Image Copyright © NRK, 2011

00:00:00 – From Bergen to Florø
00:14:50 – Arriving in Florø
00:15:35 – From Florø to Måløy
00:19:50 – Arriving in Måløy
00:20:37 – From Måløy to Torvik
00:26:20 – Arriving in Torvik
00:27:12 – From Torvik to Ålesund
00:29:20 – Arriving in Ålesund
00:29:57 – From Ålesund to Geiranger
00:39:20 – Arriving in Geiranger
00:39:47 – Back from Geiranger to Ålesund
00:48:55 – Arriving in Ålesund
00:49:26 – From Ålesund to Molde
00:54:50 – Arriving in Molde
00:55:39 – From Molde to Kristiansund
01:03:45 – Arriving in Kristiansund
01:04:20 – From Kristiansund to Trondheim
01:18:40 – Arriving in Trondheim
01:22:32 – From Trondheim to Rørvik
01:41:55 – Arriving in Rørvik
01:44:03 – From Rørvik to Brønnøysund
01:51:45 – Arriving in Brønnøysund
01:52:49 – From Brønnøysund to Sandnessjøen
01:58:30 – Arriving in Sandnessjøen
01:59:25 – From Sandnessjøen to Nesna
02:01:50 – Arriving in Nesna
02:02:28 – From Nesna to Ørnes
02:10:40 – Arriving in Ørnes
02:11:40 – From Ørnes to Bodø
02:17:20 – Arriving in Bodø
02:18:26 – From Bodø to Stamsund
02:26:55 – Arriving in Stamsund
02:27:47 – From Stamsund to Svolvær
02:30:05 – Arriving in Svolvær
02:31:37 – From Svolvær to Stokmarknes
02:38:22 – Arriving in Stokmarknes
02:40:37 – From Stokmarknes to Sortland
02:42:50 – Arriving in Sortland
02:43:23 – From Sortland to Risøyhamn
02:45:50 – Arriving in Risøyhamn
02:46:23 – From Risøyhamn to Harstad
02:50:15 – Arriving in Harstad
02:50:59 – From Harstad to Finnsnes
02:58:25 – Arriving in Finnsnes
02:59:12 – From Finnsnes to Tromsø
03:04:35 – Arriving in Tromsø
03:06:30 – From Tromsø to Skjervøy
03:15:40 – Arriving in Skjervøy
03:16:24 – From Skjervøy to Øksfjord
03:23:20 – Arriving in Øksfjord
03:24:11 – From Øksfjord to Hammerfest
03:29:55 – Arriving in Hammerfest
03:30:55 – From Hammerfest to Havøysund
03:37:06 – Arriving in Havøysund
03:37:51 – From Havøysund to Honningsvag
03:42:01 – Arriving in Honningsvag
03:43:07 – From Honningsvag to Kjøllefjord
03:49:20 – Arriving in Kjøllefjord
03:50:08 – From Kjøllefjord to Mehamn
03:54:09 – Arriving in Mehamn
03:54:51 – From Mehamn to Berlevåg
04:00:42 – Arriving in Berlevåg
04:01:05 – From Berlevåg to Båtsfjord
04:04:34 – Arriving in Båtsfjord
04:05:13 – From Båtsfjord to Vardø
04:11:40 – Arriving in Vardø
04:12:54 – From Vardø to Vadsø
04:18:25 – Arriving in Vadsø
04:19:37 – From Vadsø to Kirkenes
04:22:30 – Arriving in Kirkenes

For those interested, here are the AviSynth scripts and chapter file, used in production of these timelapses.

NRK resources:
Torrents fra NRKbeta – Direct torrent download links
Bittorrent fra NRK – cross-links to several project pages at NRK