dorsey film conversion questions and estimate

[Mark-Awakuni Swetland]

Aloha All,
Additional comments about the JOD 8 reels.

The images are black with white lettering (t.s. and m.s.)

I used a Canon Canonfilmer 100 desktop planetary microfilmer with
interchangeable recorder unit.

I used 16mm-100ft. AGFA COPEX PAN A.H.U. PET 13 film.

The reduction ratio was:
24x for up to 9x12-5/8"
32x for up to 11-1/2x16"
34x for up to 12-3/4x17-1/2"
(if any of that makes sense)

Rolls 1-3 (lexicon) are in cinema format. Rolls 4-8 are in comic strip
format.

The lens on my recycled microfilm reader is not marked for magnification.
1-1/2 frames appears on each screen. However, I move the carriage from side
to side to focus directly on one card within a four card frame for best
clarity.

mark



Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Ph.D.
University of Nebraska
Anthropology/Ethnic Studies
Native American Studies
Bessey Hall 132
Lincoln, NE 68588-0368
402-472-3455
FAX 402-472-9642
mawakuni-swetland2 at unl.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rory M Larson" <rlarson at unlnotes.unl.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: dorsey film conversion questions and estimate


>
>
>
>
> Hi Pat,
>
> > Are the slips individually filmed or several at once? John said there
> were
> > actually 20,000 shots on the film for the larger Dhegiha dictionary
> > material, so I guess individually.
>
> I can answer this one, as I recently spent several months
> plowing through them for acculturation terms.
>
> No, the 20,000 figure is rough estimate of the total
> number of words, and it's probably high.  For the OP
> dictionary part, we have 3 reels.  Each reel is
> divided into segments of 10 frames.  Each frame
> includes typically 4, but often fewer, index card
> images.  Reel 1 has at least 148 segments; reel 2
> has at least 175 segments; and reel 3 has at least
> 222 segments.  So the 20,000 word estimate is built
> on a calculation like
>
>  (148 + 175 + 222) * 10 * 4 = 21,800 words,
>
>  minus some for frames with only 2 or 3 cards
>
>     = 20,000 words.
>
> (There is usually one word per card, but sometimes
> more.  Also, the cards are generally type-written,
> though there are many hand-written ones as well,
> which are not extremely legible.  I suspect Dorsey
> originally wrote his notes on cards by hand, then
> typed them on another card, but all these cards
> were kept and sorted alphabetically in the same
> deck.  So although the handwritten cards are hard
> to read, it probably doesn't matter too much as
> they are only duplicates of words on the type-written
> cards anyway.  If we suppose each word is represented
> by both a handwritten card and a type-written card,
> we should estimate about 10,000 words in the
> collection.  Considering that many of these are
> just variously inflected forms of the same verb,
> a modern dictionary based on the collection would
> have much fewer basic words, possibly on the order
> of 5,000.)
>
> For total frames, I think we can figure about
> 5,500.
>
> Rory