The Truth About the Movies, by the Stars (1924)

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Record Details:

Title:
The Truth About the Movies, by the Stars
Date:
1924
Publisher:
Hollywood, Calif., Hollywood publishers, inc
Volume:
The truth about the movies
Leaf #:
000347
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
September 12, 2024
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¥9 ¥9 Pause Before You Become a Film Cutter FILM CUTTER is a man who goes into a small room, runs hundreds of thousands of feet of film under a light and sometimes makes a story where there is none. The film cutter is the doctor of the film world and he has a great many very sick patients at times. The film cutter must know continuity, have a slight knowledge of directions, and an eye keen and embracing. Nothing in the film can escape him. It must be cut to the second, so far as action, entrances and exits are concerned and, sometimes, he works long hours at a stretch. Film cutting is not heard so much about in the film world except on the inside. But it is a very necessary department of the motion picture industry. Like every other department of life, a film cutter must be an enthusiast, otherwise, he would be nothing. He must take a keen interest in every new story and, day after day, he must sit in a projection room and watch over hundreds and thousands of feet of film run off so that he can detect errors and inaccuracies in his own work. He must be his own critic at all times. Possibly there is no part of the motion picture business about which so little is heard as film cutting and there is no department so arduous, which requires such concentrated effort, such minuteness of detail and such natural or enforced interest in every new thing undertaken. g • v 7 343