Previously, we (Cutting et al 2010; 2011a; 2011b) amassed 150 films for cinemetric analysis. We chose ten films fromfifteen release years at five-year intervals from1935 to 2005. All were English-language films, 139 were at least partlymade in the United States, and 124 were in color. Films were selected from among those with the highest box-office gross for their given year or, before these statistics were systematically kept (beginning in 1977), from among the most rated films on the InternetMovie Database (). They were also selected to represent five genres—action films, adventure films, animations, comedies, and dramas
