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Record W4409740519 · doi:10.1525/fmh.2025.11.2.42

Nontheatrical Films for Women

2025· article· en· W4409740519 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Liz Czach

Bibliographic record

VenueFeminist Media Histories · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicCinema and Media Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMaterials scienceComputer science

Abstract

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In 1940 Judith Crawley was commissioned by John Grierson, head of the National Film Board of Canada, to make a film about cooking with apples. The resulting film, Four New Apple Dishes, made on the economical 16 mm format, was the first film to be shot in color at the board and the first to be directed by a woman. Films such as Four New Apple Dishes with subject matter considered the domain of women such as child rearing, education, cooking, and housekeeping make evident how some women-identified filmmakers in the nontheatrical field were summoned to make films for and about women. Furthermore, the exhibition circuits where nontheatrical films for women screened—from homemaking classes to women’s clubs—reveal the networked infrastructure of women’s culture that undergirded the distribution and exhibition of these films.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.043
Threshold uncertainty score0.144

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0430.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.229
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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