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The Film Surgeon
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room, the actual leap from the car to the engine appeared awkward and impossible. This particular scene was the climax of the picture, and unless it
E. L. Mcintosh, of Vitagraph, is a pioneer eighteen assistants.
could be "gotten over
the entire film would be useless. Therefore its success depended on the him surgeon. The scene was only fifteen feet long — that is, it only took fifteen seconds' actual time in the showing of the picture, as one foot is projected every second. The "cut" man decided it would have to be even shorter. Consequently he proceeded to cut out one solid foot of film. The result was astonishing. From the moment the young
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woman's foot left the hand car to the instant she alighted on the platform of the engine, the trimming was a work of art. The jump was now in tune with the speed of the picture, so to speak, and the effect was one quick, daring leap through the air, the girl leaving the hand car one instant and clinging to the engine the next.
All sorts of eccentric tricks in comedy are put in by the film editor. Ordinary somersaults, tumbles, and jumps can be made to appear ridiculous by a knowledge of just what part of the action to "cut" and what to leave in. It is said that Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, and other well-known comedians insist upon making their own cuts, as they know just what sort of effect they were trying to get, and if they missed it in the acting they can regain it, at least in part, by proper cutting. Oftentimes an actor makes an exit through a door in one scene, and a few seconds later he is seen coining out the other side. As these pictures are not taken at the same time, it often happens that in the second scene the actor opens the door much farther than he did when making
He has
Frank Mev
supervisor of film cutting for Famous Players.
his exit. This may bear some definite relation to the plot, and the surgeon has to be on the lookout and use his amputating scissors to remedy it. In pictures of explosions, the "cut"