Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What if it's a film from Israel, where people read >from right to left?
Exactly. In cultures that don't read left to right the conventions of film panning and intra-frame motion don't work the way western film directors and editors expect them to. Of course, that's just one of the many cultural attributes of western film that doesn't work in other cultures! >What about it the southern hemisphere, where the water >swirls the wrong way in the toilet? That's just an urban legend, I'm afraid :( >For that matter, what about in Cotty-land, where they >drive on the wrong side of the street? Oh hell, if you want to get into all the things that are out of whack in Cotty land... Or were you just referring to Britain? ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
