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our exposition of the excerpts in Section II embrace the problems faced on the floor — that is, the problem of choosing appropriate images — as well as those faced in the cutting room. In this way it is hoped that most of the problems of selection have been at least raised in the practical examples. In the examples we have chosen, however, the selection of shots was largely designed to reinforce the effectiveness of the dialogue and the acting.
It now remains for us to look at some less typical examples in which the actual choice of images is the crucial creative process. In these, the very acts of selecting the shots and their subsequent juxtaposition are designed to convey emotions and ideas which are not capable of any other form of expression. We are, in fact, dealing with passages of pure cinema in which the editing pattern is the film.
THE QUEEN OF SPADES1
Extract from Reel 8
St. Petersburg, 1806. Herman (Anton Walbrook), a poor but ambitious officer in the Engineers, has got to know that the Countess Ranyevskaya knows the magic secret of how to win at cards and determines to obtain the secret from her. To gain this end, he courts the Countess's young ward, Lizaveta, in order to get access to the Countess's house.
In a previous sequence, Lizaveta and the Countess — supporting herself with a stick and wearing a long fur cape which rustles as she walks — have been to the opera. Herman has managed to see Lizaveta alone for a few minutes during the performance and arranged to visit the Countess's house. When, later that night, Herman confronts the Countess alone in her bedroom, the Countess dies of the shock of being reminded of her evil past and Herman returns to his quarters without the secret.
1 C.S. Herman reading book which can be seen. It is : " The Dead Shall Give Up Their Secrets." He drinks. Camera tracks back and pans down to C.S. of Herman's hand putting down glass. He picks up bottle and fills glass. Camera cranes up as he raises bottle to show Herman in M.C.S. He puts
bottle down. Music fades.
Dissolve to :
2 C.S. Herman lying asleep. He Tapping. 24 3 opens his eyes and looks round,
trying to locate the tapping.
3 C.S. Curtains with shadows 4 4 moving on them.
1 Director : Thorold Dickinson. Editor : Hazel Wilkinson. Screenplay : Rodney Ackland and Arthur Boys, from the story by Pushkin. World Screenplays, 1948.
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