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CUTTING AND EDITING
Close-ups are effective when used to depict emotion or thoughts and as introductions. They are necessary for switchbacks or suspense but should never be used when they break into dramatic action.
There are few film cutters who try to cut and edit a picture while watching it on the screen in a projecting room dictating to a stenographer. Eliminating this scene, shortening that, transposing this scene or that title, they think they are cutting the picture properly. No man can cut a picture properly unless he looks at it once or twice in the projection room and then personally goes over the entire film by hand, on a pair of rewinders. Then when he comes to an unnecessary scene he can eliminate it but first he must be sure that the next scene or title will not break the continuity of action. If a scene drags or is too long, he must ponder over that scene, sometimes imaging himself one of the characters in order to think of a proper title. He personally must insert the title so that it will seem to come from the correct character when projected on a screen.
Dramatic switchbacks are a physical impossibility unless a cutter personally arranges the scenes. If his assistant does this, he is the real cutter and it is mere luck if he gets the title inserted perfectly.
A film cutter must be able to write and originate comic and dramatic titles. He must also know the proper color schemes for each scene in order to cut the negatives properly when the positive print is ready for the laboratory.
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