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THE CUT-BACK 91 7- Norma's room- Norma enters, crying- starts to remove*her dress. Leader- Norma is ready to leave her father's home. 8- Back to No. 7- Norma is now dressed for street- she takes one last look about the room- exits. It requires no great experience to realize that this is rather awk- ward. Here we have a scene following one of great strength; the quarrel with her father. She rushes off to her room to change her things and we are all wrought up over the matter. Then flashes an unimportant leader and the effect is much as though our spirits were dashed with cold water. The value of the situa- tion has been lost through the leader. Compare the above with this development: 7- Norma's room- Norma enters, crying- starts to undress. 8- Back to No. 6- Flash of mother arguing unsuccessfully with father. 9- Back to No. 7- Norma dressed for street- takes last look at room- exits. The flash of the room in which the quarrel occurred takes no more time than the leader would require, but now, instead of los- ing interest, the situation is the stronger because of that fleeting glimpse of the parents. It holds up the story and may even raise it a trifle instead of letting the action drop. The same device may be used to get rid of a dinner scene. We cannot hold the action through the meal and the ten second din- ner is unconvincing. We cut-back to some other action and when we get back to the dining room the meal is over. In the same way holes may be dug, tents erected or anything done that would require more time than the film will permit. To conceal crime, or rather to avoid showing the actual per- formance of a criminal act, the cut-back is invaluable. If it is a fight we may see the police hurrying to the rescue, if a murder the assassin draws his revolver. We see the wife of the murdered man peacefully engaged in household duties. We come back to the other scene and the man is dead. The deed has been com- mitted. We have the full effect without having shown the actual commission of the crime. In the same way there may be shown the burglar breaking into the house and the family roused by the noise and telephoning for