Film editing trends and culture between 1900 and 2008
Feb 6th, 2009 by Peter D. Marshall
This article is from Mike Jones Digital Basin.
“Sometime ago as part of research I was doing into trends in cinema production I was directed to a website called http://cinemetrics.lv/ which sort to collate raw data about the average length of shots through the history of cinema. Using a custom tool it allowed for a mathematical dataset to be compiled of how many cuts and how long those cuts were during the course of a feature film. What results is a very interesting set of graphs dealing with editing trends over the past century.” Read rest of article.
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