Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 15 | Movies Lead Double Lives! Same Scenes Often Reappear in New Film

Movies Lead Double lives Same I Scenes Often Reappear i in New Film HOLLYWOOD Cal AP AP-AI- most any motion picture is capable of leading a double or triple life Ufe and many of ot them do MAit PARTS PAnTS Usually the film o BILE fan never guesses D OAM AM Nt JP MARE MAKE that time the melo- melo ME P. P couP COPL drama he saw was filmed originally as l part alt of the ro- ro comedy he hc saw six weeks a ago o. o But the film editors of holly holly- wood know their I wandering chil- chil c well They do not expect them to be alwa's always al- al ways was just what the they started out outto tc to be And if they can be not I Ionly only that but two I V Vor or three other things so HO much the better for time thc 10 reputation of the editor or cutter whose value alue lies gIn g- g lii In his ability to take all the odds and ends 0 oT celluloid bid loid coming from the camera during during dur- dur ing production and pu put them together together to- to gether gether- lea least l one marketable movie Sometimes only ten or twelve reels of oC film are exposed in the making of a seven reel picture In which ease case time the cutter seldom has hasan nfl an ot creating another picture out of the leftovers It If the film as edited a a n to time the original story stor is ible to be shown however it I e UI to the cutter to to take it ap nd ad string it torether on an el different plot frameWork Many a sick pi pid- pid tore has hall heen operated on l in this surgery c of r en- en Ya tray the Y 7 1 o l i p o jJ I i i iC tire removal of the original stor story and substitution of a new narrative to be told by the scenes already shot for tor the old one This is difficult to do but not so difficult as it seems at first glance A fist fight between a handSome handsome hand hand- some young man and another man not so h for fOI instance would be Interpreted by spectators who see It on the screen as time the big fight betweEn the the hero hero and the vii vil- lain it if the ar of scenes and subtitles Preceding it mal make e that Interpretation the only logical one Time The same fight hOwEver In connection connection con con- with a different arrangement arrange arrange- ment ot of scenes and subtitles would be seen as the big fight between Joe Joeand Joeand and his brother before their recon recon- dilation or the rou rough h and tumble argument between time the two pals who never had a mean moment until they both fell In love with the same girl Again a ot of a handsome man kissing a beautiful woman may be used with equal success as time the happy ending of a romance or orone orone one of the first scenes of a romance desti dest ed to end Unhappily Or it could be used in the tho middle of a picture just Preceding the light between the husband and the other man If trimmed down to the proper foot footage gc it could even be a husband kissing his wife goodbe goodbye good good- bye be on going to the office Frank Lawrence one of the oldest oldest old old- est editors in POint of enco he learned low to cut pictures plc- plc tures still a Projectionist in the old reel one days dus rec recalls productions In I which time the spare celluloid was was s o I plentiful and so good that he be was able to to- put together one picture telling time the original story and then use time the leftover pieces to make two other telling entirely different stories 11 i i IM L Hi i t