Tagging and Thumbnailing Film Data

Problem: How do you simply tag and thumbnail film footage for future viewing and use?

Idea: Assuming a film is not useful until you've seen at least a part of it, you could have the user select one or more static frames to "tag" the film overall as they are watching it. These would be images that would remind the user of a memorable part of the movie and allow them to identify the movie from others (difficult if there are subsequent similar films/footage)

Offshoots: For video editing, it might further be useful to allow watchers to tag various scenes so that they can go back to them directly. Also, text tags could be used -- but this depends on literacy and introduces a language component (see entry about arabic numerals and cross-cultural references)

Inspiration: The "Improved Development Decision" project involves teenagers shooting footage to make 2 minute movies. According to Design Theory, in order to get good footage, one needs a lot of footage.. but, a lot of footage is hard to keep track of for editing purposes.