in pip chodorov's interesting recent question: > Interestingly, the rarest of all occurences in film time is 1:1; that is, a > film which lasts 90 minutes that represents 90 minutes of real time > (Hitchcock's ROPE is full of theatrical time elipses, and even Warhol had to > stop to load his camera when filming EMPIRE). Any ideas on this? does the phrase "real time" refer to the represented or diegetic time--in which case ROPE would seem to serve as a good example--or does it refer to an actual correspondence between the time it took to record the film and the time it takes to project it back--in which case we're talking about a 1:1 correspondence that exits only as a matter of historical record but is not itself inscribed in the finished film . . . in which case i'm not sure why it matters . . . perhaps there's something i'm missing mike frank ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]