July 23, 1999

Digital Tools to Parse the Language of Film

By ROBERT KOLKER

A literary scholar can quote a passage from a poem, novel, or play. An art historian can reproduce an image from a painting. But how does a film scholar "quote" from a film?

Film archives -- which focus more on preservation than on access -- have been stingy about allowing scholars to use their collections. For years in the classroom, we have relied on videotape, a poor surrogate for film because it routinely

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