[libdb-develop] Re: Movies/NTSC Equivalent To Books/Large Print?

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

Hey all, just catching up on old messages.
My original email on this subject was:

 >Assuming, for the sake of conversational brevity:
 >
 >  * the normal print book is letter-for-letter
 >    the same as the large print book.
 >
 >  * an NTSC movie is the frame-for-frame the same
 >    as an American version, but shorter.
 >
 >Should they be split as different expressions or manifestations?

For the archives and other readers, some
clarification concerning NTSC and PAL movies:

 FPS - Frames Per Second. All NTSC video (the standard in North America
 and Japan) unreels at 24 fps, the same speed at which motion picture film
 is projected. PAL video (the European standard), on the other hand, plays
 at a slightly faster speed of 25 fps speed. Consequently, the same film
 will play shorter in PAL than in NTSC, even if it is absolutely uncut.

                     -- http://www.videowatchdog.com/home/Glossary.htm

"same film" is the key term here. A 89 minute movie filmed in Germany
plays out as a 92 minute movie in the US, with absolutely no modification
save for frame speed.

Since a movie's frame speed is equivalent to a book's print size
(ie. faster or slower frames in  a movie has no effect on its
content, enlarging the print-size of a book has no effect on its
content), my determination is that:

 * one single movie, released in NTSC and PAL formats, is equivalent
   to one single book, released in normal and large print. Thus,
   they are two different manifestations of the same expression,
   even though the extant (page count, film duration) is different.

Note that is the *film* itself, not counting ephemera as video
company logos (the distributor of an NTSC film is invariably
different from the distributor of the PAL version), FBI warnings,
MPAA ratings certificates (or similar), etc.

Thanks to Barbara B. Tillett and Martin Doerr for responding.

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