I've read a lot of essays on film noir and there are a lot of
different views on what films should be included, what film
was the first, the last, etc. So I wondered if mathematics
could yield the answers to some of these questions. By using
standard deviation and a sample of over 200 movies considered
by a general consensus to be film noir and then sorting them
by year to yield a standard distribution model I came up with
some interesting results. The peak year for film noir was
1949. Some 95% of all movies considered noir were made from
1940 to 1958. The first film that falls within the 95 percent
deviation: Stranger on the Third Floor.
Jeff
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