24fps was not chosen from technical merit but because it was the lowest frame rate that most people didn't see flicker.
Real artists understand the limits of the medium they're working in and shape their creations to exist within it. So even if there was no artistic or technical merit in the choice to standardize on 24 FPS, the choice to standardize on 24 FPS shaped the media that came after it. Which means it's gained merit it didn't have when it was initially standardized upon.
>before Scorsese made The Godfather
Can you let me in on the joke?
The director was of course Francis Ford Coppola.