> each segment has a slightly different length. 

About ten years ago, I was showing (nostalgia) in class, pondering the duration 
of the shots, looking at a watch occasionally as the edits went by, and I had a 
kind of revelation: Each shot is a 100' load. I don't know if any one's written 
about that one way or the other, but (if true) it would be a kind of obvious 
conceptual match - one still photo burned shot with one spool of movie film. 

Exposed and processed 100' loads only contain approximately the same amount of 
usable image. If HF loaded/unloaded under light, the leaks on the head and tail 
snipped off would be different, and even if he used a darkroom, getting the 
camera threaded will take up slightly different lengths off the head. Finally, 
depending on where he got the stock, 100' loads might not be exactly 100', or 
exactly the same.

So, the algorithm component wouldn't be 'each shot is [X} feet' or '[X] 
duration on screen', but 'each shot is all the usable footage that came out of 
one load of an MOS camera'. Quite elegant, if that's indeed what it is...
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