The technique of film editing (1958)

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SHOOTING SCRIPT 37 M.C.S. Pinkie Pinkie rises slowly from the bed and moves through the door into the passage outside. The camera pans and tracks out on to the landing. The door of Spicer's bedroom is open and swings to and fro in the draught, making little creaking sounds. The camera is stationary. Pinkie moves towards it. 38 M.S. Outside Spicer's bedroom Pinkie enters frame from behind camera and stands listening with one hand on the banisters. He shivers suddenly as a tinny noise comes from inside. His hand tightens on the banister rail and it moves visibly. He looks at it and then back to the half open door. He enters. The camera stays outside on the shadows and the swinging door. Once inside the doorway there is sudden and complete silence from the bedroom. POST-PRODUCTION SCRIPT Ft.fr. 2. M.LS. Pinkie, Dallow in right 2 5 foreground. Pinkie walks across room to right, camera pans with him up to the door. Pinkie : (off) So you're alive ! Spicer : (off) I got away. Pinkie. The sound of footsteps moving into the room. The door gives a loud creak in the draught, then more footsteps as Spicer starts backing away talking rapidly. Spicer : (off) I'm clearing right out, Pinkie. I'm too old. Spicer comes backing out on to the landing. Pinkie follows closely. Spicer : Don't do anything, Pinkie. I'm clearing out I tell you — I'm too old — that pub in Nottingham. He is right up against the broken banisters now. 3. Landing outside Pinkie's room 18 Camera facing door of Pinkie's room, banisters left, door to Spicer's bedroom right. Pinkie comes out through door, pauses, and then walks cautiously towards Spicer's door. 4. M.S. Interior Pinkie's room. 3 Prewitt examining the money Pinkie gave him. 5. As in 3. Pinkie looks back 83 at the banisters behind him. He puts his hand on the banister rail ; he pushes it sideways to make sure it is broken. Music stops. He slowly walks forward into Spicer's bedroom. Dallow appears in Pinkie's bedroom door, stops there, hand in coat pocket. Camera pans slowly left below level of banister rail, until the half-open door to Spicer's bedroom is seen through banister uprights in centre of frame. Pinkie : (off, from Spicer's bedroom) So you're alive, Spicer ! Spicer : (off) I got away, Pinkie ! — While Spicer is heard talking, the door opens and Spicer appears, retreating back towards camera and being followed by Pinkie. Spicer is terrified. Spicer : — I got away. I'm clearing out, Pinkie — right out. I'm too old for this game, I — I'm far too old. Nobody wants an old man. I'll go to my cousin in Nottingham— the Blue Anchor. Yeah, — I can stay there as long as I like. You can find me there if you want to, Pinkie. — 52