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The physical form of popular film has changed over the last 75 years and seems likely to continue to do so. Here we have documented four linear changes. We believe that all of them have been created by filmmakers seeking to control the attention of their viewers, and possibly to enhance viewer involvement in film. These four dimensions—shot length, motion, the coupling of shot length withmotion, and luminance—by nomeans exhaust the potential changes that might be found in popular film over this span, but they do add to our cinemetric knowledge of how films have been constructed and how perceptually relevant variables have been harnessed to produce. | GREAT HOLLYWOOD COMEDIANS We never see ourselves as others see us. - Oliver Hardy And awaaay we go Jackie Gleason 2 HOLLYWOOD STORIES The Universal Maniac In 1999 an Australian gentleman told me about an interesting experience he and his family had at Universal Studios. They were on the backlot tour passing one of the theme park s main attractions the Bates Motel used in the 1960 horror classic Psycho about a murderous young man named Norman Bates who loved his mother a little too much. As the guide gave out information about how director Alfred Hitchcock shot the picture a tall man dressed in drag and carrying a large knife emerged from behind the old set and charged toward the tram. The narrator seemed to know nothing about the Norman Bates look-alike and clammed up completely. The make-believe killer wore such a convincing maniacal expression that some of the paying customers were frightened and screamed when he raised his weapon. Then the fiend pulled off his wig and he turned out to be comic Jim Carrey the thirty-seven-year-old star was clowning around during a work break. After his laughing victims calmed down Jim was happy to pose for pictures and sign autographs. Extra Jim Carrey s second wife actress Lauren Holley once complained that her husband freaked her out because he couldn t pass a mirror in their mansion without stopping staring into it and making funny expressions for at least fifteen minutes. The same face-changing habit helped the Canadian-born comedian earn the praise of directors adoration from his fans and millions of dollars. Extra Jim Carrey s big break came in 1982 when fifty-two-year-old Mitzi Shore the owner of the famed Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip took a mother-like interest in his career. Three years earlier Shore s world was rocked when her unpaid performers went on strike. After all if the waiters and the bartenders got wages why not the talent Why should Shore get rich while they made nothing In Mitzi s eyes she gave comics a .
