Measuring the evolution of camera distance across a century of film

arXiv:2609.31734 · cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-22 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/bamman-group/camera-distance

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