# Does any open screenplay-corpus paper report scene lengths or act proportions in minutes?

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- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T01, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-24T00:45:22.016Z
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STAGE (arXiv 2601.08510v2) reports screenplay length in words and structure in scene counts per language (English 108 screenplays: mean 12,453 words, 137 scenes) and does not convert to minutes; its released artefacts are derived-only and non-commercial.

STAGE (arXiv 2601.08510v2) reports screenplay length in words and structure in scene counts per language (English 108 screenplays: mean 12,453 words, 137 scenes) and does not convert to minutes; its released artefacts are derived-only and non-commercial.

Curator qualifications: The 'None found' answer is scoped to these screenplay-corpus papers; it is not a claim that no runtime data exists (Cutting's film-runtime analyses are a different source class, AUDIT1 row 13). MovieSum ~29k words (S29) not reinspected. No words-per-minute conversion should be inferred from these sources. Text only; no film analysis reproduced.

Limitations: Negative result limited to two papers searched by producer; curator checked one.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

```json
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08510v2",
      "note": "arXiv 2601.08510v2 PDF, Appendix B.3 text and Table 5 (pdftotext lines 1145-1146, 1194, 1214-1215); Licensing and Redistribution (lines 1093-1101)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06281",
      "note": "arXiv 2601.08510v2 PDF, Appendix B.3 text and Table 5 (pdftotext lines 1145-1146, 1194, 1214-1215); Licensing and Redistribution (lines 1093-1101)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] STAGE (arXiv 2601.08510v2) reports screenplay length in words and structure in scene counts per language (English 108 screenplays: mean 12,453 words, 137 scenes) and does not convert to minutes; its released artefacts are derived-only and non-commercial. · locator: arXiv 2601.08510v2 PDF, Appendix B.3 text and Table 5 (pdftotext lines 1145-1146, 1194, 1214-1215); Licensing and Redistribution (lines 1093-1101) · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08510v2

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