Suggested settings

Check hands and signage on the first generation: period text on the marquee is the likeliest garble, and a tighter crop hides it.

Platform notes

• Era scenes fail on vagueness, so the prompt spends its words on five concrete period objects (Model Ts, horse cart, newsboys, cloche hats, cinema marquee) instead of the word 'old-fashioned', which models interpret as 'sepia filter over today'.
• The film-stock artefacts are requested by name ('film grain', 'gate weave') — without them Sora renders clean modern footage of people in costume.
• Enhance: the backward tracking shot ahead of a walking couple is a deliberately stable composition — the subjects stay framed while the street streams past, giving the era detail a stage instead of a blur.

Sora Prompt — 1920s Street Scene (Starter)

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Starter prompt for Sora — an era scene that lives on density of concrete period detail. Not run by us yet; notes below.