The Cutting Edge

The Magic of Movie Editing

Who worked out cutting separate shots together could create a story?
How did
Stephen
Spielberg
make the
shark in
Jaws look
realistic?
What do
we call a
cut that
masks
that we
are
moving
from one
frame to
another?

Edwin Porter

Cutting out two frames so it was 36 frames instead of 38 so the shark looks
real and not fake.

The invisible art.

What
editing
technique originated from Russia?
Who was the supervising editor at MGM in the 1930s?
Montage

Margret Booth

Breathless

Which film
broke
away from
the
expected
film
language
and experimented in the 1960s?

Name one technique this film used...

Cut the boring bits.