A Numerate Film History? Cinemetrics Looks at Griffith, Griffith Looks at Cinemetrics

The field of study we visit in this article is the history of editing. Specifically, we look at D.W. Griffith’s essay “Pace in the Movies” (1926) which says that specific scenes in films must be edited with specific shot lengths in mind. In a model movie cuts between shots must come with a wavelike...

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Main Author: Mike Baxter | Daria Khitrova | Yuri Tsivian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel 2016-04-01
Series:Mise au Point
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/map/2108