THE TECHNIQUE OF FILM EDITING

Publisher’s Note = 5 Introduction = 9 PART I SECTION 1 THE HISTORY OF EDITING = 13 Editing and the Silent Film = 15 The Beginnings of Film Continuity = 16 Griffith : Dramatic Emphasis = 20 Pudovkin : Constructive Editing = 26 Eisenstein : Intellectual Montage = 33 Editing and the Sound Film = 41 General = 41 Who Edits a Film? = 45 The Order of Shots = 46 Selection of Camera Set-ups : Emphasis = 47 Timing = 47 Presentation : Smoothness = 48 The Contribution of Editing = 56 Special Styles of Editing = 61 SECTION 2 THE PRACTICE OF EDITING = 67 Action Sequences = 69 Dialogue Sequences = 86 Comedy Sequences = 102 Montage Sequences = 112 Documentary Reportage = 123 Imaginative Documentary = 135 The Documentary Film of Ideas = 156 The Documentary and the Use of Sound = 164 Educational Films = 171 Newsreels = 184 The Compilation Film = 194 SECTION 3 PRINCIPLES OF EDITING = 211 Editing the Picture = 213 General = 213 Constructing a Lucid Continuity : Smoothness = 216 Matching Consecutive Actions = 216 Extent of Change in Image Size and Angle = 220 Preserving a Sense of Direction = 222 Preserving a Clear Continuity = 225 Matching Tone = 226 Making Sound Flow over a Cut = 227 Timing = 232 Pace : Rhythm = 241 Selection of Shots = 248 Sound Editing = 256 General = 256 Analysis of a Sound Track = 261 Sound and the Editing of the Picture = 269 PART II SECTION 4 THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES = 273 Introduction = 275 Widescreen = 279 General = 279 River of No Return = 282 André Bazin = 283 Widescreen Examples = 285 Cinéma-Véritè and the Documentary Film of Ideas = 297 Cinéma-Véritè = 297 Chronique d'un Etè = 300 Le Joli Mai = 303 Hôtel des Invalides = 317 Nouvelle Vague = 322 Caméra-Stylo = 322 New Wave = 323 Personal Cinema in the Sixties = 330 François Truffaut = 330 Jean-Luc Godard = 345 Alain Resnais = 358 Michelangelo Antonioni = 369 Conclusion = 386 APPENDIX SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY = 391 CUTTING ROOM PROCEDURE = 393 Synchronisation of Rushes = 393 Editing the Film = 394 Opticals = 395 Sound Editing = 395 GLOSSARY OF TERMS = 397 INDEX = 403 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS = 409

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