{
"size": [
960,
720
],
"fps": 24,
"shots": [
{
"clip": 209,
"in": 13.0,
"out": 26.0,
"gain": 1,
"why": "first participant, intact: a woman laying a table in a 1940 film. Thirteen seconds of one job, no cutting.",
"caption": "1940"
},
{
"clip": 285,
"in": 0.3,
"out": 3.7,
"sound": [
{
"clip": 209,
"in": 22.6,
"out": 26,
"at": 0,
"gain": 0.5,
"fi": 0.05,
"fo": 0.2
}
],
"why": "second participant, whoever raises this blind in Berlin; never seen. Silent source, room sound carried over from the table so the seam is audible as a borrowing.",
"caption": "Berlin, undated in this archive"
},
{
"clip": 162,
"in": 4.6,
"out": 13.5,
"gain": 1,
"why": "third: a woman at a sink, 1958, from a staged film whose husband is not listening. Keeps its fictional voice; fiction stays fiction.",
"caption": "1958, a staged film"
},
{
"clip": 1,
"in": 14.5,
"out": 22.5,
"gain": 1,
"why": "handoff on water: sink to river, Modesta, undated in the archive. Women washing together, not one woman alone: the bigger frame already changes the job.",
"caption": "Modesta, undated",
"vf": "crop=1440:1080"
},
{
"clip": 23,
"in": 8.2,
"out": 10.6,
"sound": [
{
"clip": 1,
"in": 22.5,
"out": 24.9,
"at": 0,
"gain": 0.5
}
],
"why": "continued, close: one woman at a stone, 1920, Dutch colonial footage. Silent source; the Modesta river is laid under it and the ledger says so.",
"caption": "1920, Dutch colonial footage"
},
{
"clip": 23,
"in": 0.3,
"out": 7.0,
"sound": [
{
"clip": 1,
"in": 14.5,
"out": 21.2,
"at": 0,
"gain": 0.5,
"fo": 0.3
}
],
"why": "widen: a whole channel of washers, in a street, filmed by someone from elsewhere. The handoff no longer reads as a continuation."
},
{
"clip": 1,
"in": 30.0,
"out": 38.0,
"gain": 1,
"why": "carrying: what the washers would do next, if this were a day, but it isn't.",
"vf": "crop=1440:1080"
},
{
"clip": 32,
"in": 1.0,
"out": 7.0,
"sound": [
{
"clip": 1,
"in": 38,
"out": 44,
"at": 0,
"gain": 0.45,
"fo": 0.3
}
],
"why": "carrying again, 1920. Stops before the camera's own close approach to a bare-chested woman at 9s, which the source film chose and this one declines."
},
{
"clip": 162,
"in": 14.0,
"out": 19.6,
"gain": 1,
"why": "the unfinished task. Back at the sink, she is still washing and still not being heard; the film leaves mid-sentence and never comes back."
},
{
"clip": 209,
"in": 0.3,
"out": 5.3,
"gain": 1,
"why": "return to the first film after its job: what she laid is now under a child's elbows. A different pace, and this film's own boast about pioneers, which the morning has not earned.",
"caption": "This is not one morning.\nFive films, made decades and continents apart, put in this order here."
}
]
}