The article kind of says this, but I suspect the process of editing films and composing shots has gotten easier over the years as the industry has refined tooling and techniques. Not just CGI, but the ability to arrange and view scenes is probably much more fluid today than it used to be. This also seems like something where incremental editing improvements lead to incremental changes in shot duration.

I think it's much shorter now, that article is almost 8 years old. With the ubiquity of digital cinema, I suspect the average shot length is 1.x seconds.

What movies are these? An average shot length of less than 2 seconds sounds like it would give me a massive headache.

Here's a list I stole from Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-films-have-the-lowest-average-sho...

ASL 1.55 - Doomsday (2008) : 4052 shots over 105 minutes

ASL 1.72 - Transporter 3 (2008) : 3360 shots over 96 minutes

ASL 1.73 - Domino (2005) : 4046 shots over 116 minutes

ASL 1.83 - Quantum of Solace (2008) : 3198 shots over 98 minutes

ASL 1.84 - Crank: High Voltage (2009) : 2718 shots over 84 minutes

ASL 1.92 - Transporter 2 (2005) : 2524 shots over 81 minutes

ASL 2.01 - Band of Ninja (1967) : 3424 shots over 114 minutes

ASL 2.01 - Moulin Rouge! (2001) : 3594 shots over 120 minutes

ASL 2.03 - Gamer (2009) : 2502 shots over 84 minutes

ASL 2.03 - The 6th Day (2000) : 3418 shots over 116 minutes

ASL 2.08 - Hot Fuzz (2007) : 3304 shots over 115 minutes

ASL 2.10 - Dark City (1998) : 2982 shots over 104 minutes

ASL 2.15 - Armageddon (1998) : 4025 shots over 145 minutes

ASL 2.17 - The Transporter (2002) : 2420 shots over 87 minutes

ASL 2.17 - The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) : 2910 shots over 105 minutes

Who knew that random passersby on Sunset Blvd that got pulled into a Hollywood film screen test had this much power?

I'd expect that some films, at least, have an uneven distribution of cuts. Action scenes will have more cuts than non-action scenes etc. Still, it's interesting to watch these films with the shot length in mind, it can definitely be unnecessarily frenetic.