Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

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Editing the Film racing motorboats. Such messengers may leave a location three hundred miles away at 7:00 p. m., and rush to the studio laboratory where the night workers process the exposed film so that it may start back to the location by noon next day for inspection by director and cast. Film editing is one of the many professions in motion picture making which has been successfully invaded by women. The Good Earth was edited by a man and the majority of film editors are men. But some of the greatest are women. A woman, for example, edited Romeo and Juliet, and a woman film editor, Dorothy Arzner, has become the only woman film director. Perhaps it is the sense of intuition with which women are credited to a greater degree than men which makes women so successful in editing. There are not as many women film editors as men, but when they attain their full powers, almost without exception they do work of high quality. Each day the film editor shows to the director scenes made the day before. The director may or may not have invited his stars and featured players to be present. Of several "takes" made of each scene the director indicates one as the best. His choice covers two parallel standards of excellence: the first is that of acting; the second of photography. The rolls chosen are placed in metal boxes as previously described. These are marked with the scene numbers. The editor gets this number from that on the "slate" held before the camera at the conclusion of each scene. The process of photographing this identifying slate with its symbols has been described. [319]