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Judging by the blurred cacti in the background, I presume that the camera is moving in the same direction as the bike. The bike is crisp, except for a streaking helmet, shirt and light. Wouldn't everything be streaking if it was a long exposure? Looks like a post effect to me.

The second image could be multiple exposures or a post effect. Would be easier to figure out if one could see it moving.

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The second one is a digital effects version of the old step-and-repeat optical printing effect made famous by Norman McClaren's Paux de Deux (1969) but also popular with Richard Lester, who used this effect in "The Three Musketeers" credits and one of Superman's transformations from Clark Kent in "Superman II".

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That video also seems inspired by Paul Cameron's work in "Man on Fire", which did a lot of in-camera multiple exposures using a hand-cranked camera.

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So long as there is little motion in the image, stacking layers of the same clip in your editor successively one frame delayed with transparency over a firm base image track confers a noise reduction effect. It also paradoxically enables passing objects like cars at night in street lighting to be "seen" through light hedge foliage when you pan with the vehicle. It is useless information in these times of affordable effective noise reduction but a workaround back in the times when Adobe After Effects was hell expensive.

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