Tom Gunning, “Your Number Is Up! Questioning Numbers in Film History“

On March 1, 2014, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago presented: A Numerate Film History? Cinemetrics Looks at Griffith, Sennett and Chaplin (1909-1917) This one-day conference examined the possible promises—or traps—that emerge as a result of the encounter between century-old films and computational statistics. Your Number Is Up! Questioning Numbers in Film History (or Can Numbers Provide Answers?) Tom Gunning, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Art History, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, and the College Video 2 of 5 View them all at: ... Conference Description: Does looking at numbers help make sense of film history? People in filmmaking used to count, and not just money. For “the pace of a picture to wed the pulse of an audience,“ as D.W. Griffith once put it, the director must know for how long this or that shot will stay on