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Exactly, this is what took Daria and me to Prague, as I wrote in the first post. One of the questions we wanted (and to an extant, managed) to figure out was what typically changes when an American comedy is released in Czechoslovakia, Soviet Russia, or France. Normally, these films were re-cut for ...

Thank you, Richard and Bob, all this makes a lot of sense. Based on what you are saying, we will calculate average shot lengths at 20 fps.

Yuri

Thank you. Actually, while I was writing this, Daria found the wanted title: The Bath House Beauty. The speed problem we are trying to solve is to find a common frame-rate denominator for films measured on Cinemetrics. Some have been measured from transfers done (or viewing table run) at 24, some fr...

Hi, this is Yuri Tsivian of U of Chicago. Daria Khitrova and me spent 2 days at NFA in Prague measuring shot lengths for Czech release version of Keystone films. All Czech titles but one presented no problems identifying. The only one we are still working on is a Fatty film whose Czech title is &quo...