It seems like it would be simple enough to convert a video into an image like these by isolating a single column of pixels from each frame and putting them together chronologically.
#starting at 467s and outputting the images of the next 3 seconds
ffmpeg -ss 467 -t 3 -i video.mkv output.%04d.png
# crop image to 1px slices 280 pixels from the left.
gm mogrify -crop 1x+280+0 *.png
# stitch them
gm montage -border 0 -geometry +0+0 -tile x1 *.png image.jpg
Now someone just has to find movies with static camera scenes that have a lot of horizontal actor/object movement.
Random example showing Bill Bailey as a demon: http://i.imgur.com/AWWG8.jpg
Some static rallye car cameras from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2QMuT04EOw -> http://i.imgur.com/GV3bY.jpg
Needs either higher framerate videos or longer scenes.
P.S. you can use "output.%03d.png" to zero pad the output to 011 (and %04d for 0011 etc.)
If we assume 50fps, then every 1000px wide video would become a 3-4 minute short. But movies would require a very wide screen...
gm montage -borderwidth 0 -geometry +0+0 -tile x1 *.png image.jpg
# of 1-px wide PNGs Resulting width (px)
5 3
10 4
20 5
50 8
100 10
200 15
500 23
1000 32
1979 45
What's up with the crazy widths on the result? What is GraphicsMagick doing?