For each of 8 chosen Vertov's films, distributions of the counts for each of 17 shot types and for camera movements have been estimated, and the corresponding histograms are presented. For a film as a timed-based art, conventional video editing codes present the elapsed minutes of film on the I x i -axis, and categories important for the analysis are shown on the I y i -axis. The considered project could develop "a broader methodological approach for future film-scholarly investigations, one that extends from concrete assistance in quantitative film analysis, through independent data visualization, all the way to film-historic explanation ... in which an individual film work or the person of a film-maker can be accorded a place in the larger social and historical context" (p. 307). [Extracted from the article]