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• Scene from "The Three Little Bruins," recent Castle Films release notable for the excellent editing technique it demonstrates.
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'ESIDES offering fine screen entertainment, many of the subjects regularly released in 8mm. and 16mm. by Castle Films, Inc., afford interesting study in various techniques of movie making for the amateur. A case in point is "The Three Little Bruins," among the latest and most popular of Castle films, which presents one of the finest examples of editing a straight, narrative type picture — such as filmed most often by the average amateur.
This observation was made during a screening of the full length version of "The Three Little Bruins," although, without a doubt, the same adroit editing prevails in the shorter, "Headline" editions of this Castle subject. "The Three Little Bruins" is an entertaining document of three cub bears and their neighboring inhabitants of the forest;
and while it is essentially the little bear's picture, there is considerable film devoted to picturing, intimately, activities of owls, foxes, raccoons, skunks and other wildwood companions of the bruins.
By skillfully concealing his camera, the cameraman has captured amazing, intimate action shots of these baby bears and many timorous creatures of the wild. The picture begins with an episode showing a pair of owls high up in a tree, quizzically observing an otter playfully swimming about in the shallow creek below them. This affords opportunity for the introductory remarks
• Frame reproductions from an eight-scene sequence in "The Three Little Bruins" that illustrates technique of intercutting two scenes to heighten interest and build for continuity. Pictures read from left to right.
of the narrator and establishes locale of the picture. The three little bruins are next introduced and are shown attempting to climb a tall pine tree in search of honey.
From there they travel through the woods, stopping now and then to romp and play or to follow the scent of ostensible morsels of food. One such detour brings them to an old fallen tree, aged and rotted and hollowed by voracious termites. Termites are a delicacy relished by bears and the three little bruins proceed to rip the rotted bark from the tree and feast upon the nest of termites underneath.
Of course there is more, a great deal more to this picture such as intimate studies of other animals encountered by the bruins in their exploration of the forest — baby deer, a litter of baby foxes, a skunk and many others. But we have emphasized the first two sequences because they illustrate some fine film editing and because it would only be repetitive to chroncle this cinematic treatment given the other sequences. Besides, we started out to tell about the editing lessons contained in this picture.
One of the most difficult things for the amateur to do is to chop up a couple of scenes and intercut them with one another to heighten interest in a sequence of action. Yet this is one of the oldest of editing procedures and one of the first the amateur must master if he hopes to apply professional-like editing to his pictures.
At the bottom of this page is a series of eight frame-reproductions from one of the opening sequences • Continued on Page 376