{
"pairs": [
{
"dur": 12.5,
"left": {
"clip": 46,
"in": 0.3,
"gain": 0.8
},
"right": {
"clip": 52,
"in": 0.3,
"gain": 0.8
},
"why": "preparing a place to sit: 1961, an airman squaring rows of chairs for an audience not yet there; 1944, a woman adjusting a typing chair for herself. Recognizable alignment on the bend at the chair."
},
{
"dur": 4.5,
"left": {
"clip": 46,
"in": 12.5,
"gain": 0.8
},
"right": {
"clip": 52,
"in": 12.0,
"gain": 0.8
},
"why": "she has finished: she is sitting. He has walked out of frame and the chairs stay empty. Same gesture, different ending."
},
{
"dur": 9.0,
"left": {
"clip": 160,
"in": 1.0,
"gain": 3
},
"right": {
"clip": 144,
"in": 3.7,
"gain": 0.9
},
"why": "lighting a fire and working an oven. Iraq 1951 has no spoken sound at all; the American kitchen film talks the whole way through about productivity. That inequality is left audible."
},
{
"dur": 3.0,
"left": {
"clip": 160,
"in": 13.0,
"gain": 3
},
"right": {
"clip": 144,
"in": 11.0,
"gain": 0.9
},
"why": "wider on both: another person is standing by the wall in one; a man is being served at a table in the other."
},
{
"dur": 3.0,
"left": {
"clip": 245,
"in": 25.3,
"gain": 0.8
},
"right": {
"clip": 246,
"in": 56.2,
"gain": 0.8
},
"why": "sweeping: a shopfront in a 1951 town promotion film; a stone floor in a 1957 film about a Spanish village."
},
{
"dur": 6.0,
"left": {
"clip": 245,
"in": 27.8,
"gain": 0.8,
"t": 2.9
},
"right": {
"clip": 240,
"in": 1.15,
"gain": 0.8,
"t": 3.1
},
"why": "the resemblance fails at the outcome: he has stopped and is leaning on the broom; she throws water down a row-house street while a voice asks what they imagine they can make out of this."
}
]
}