Early Hitchcock

This data set contains the shot length data for films in the <em>Early Hitchcock</em> DVD collection, including four silent films (<em>The Ring</em> (1927), <em>The Farmer’s Wife </em>(1928), <em>Champagne </em>(1928), and <em>The Manxman </em>(1929)) and five sound films (<em>Blackmail</em> (1929), <em>Murder</em> (1930), <em>The Skin Game</em> (1931)<em>, Rich and Strange</em> (1931), <em>Number Seventeen </em>(1932)) directed by Alfred Hitchcock between 1927 and 1932. Shot length data was collected shot length data from the PAL DVD release of these films and corrected the duration of each shot to 24 frames per second by multiplying by a factor of 1.041667. Opening and closing credits from each film have been removed, but all other titles are included.