Show l WOE TO THE ACTOR ACTOR- WHO COMES UNDER THE FILM CUTTERS CUTTER'S SNIPS By Dy J CK JU JU TR HOLLYWOOD July Screen 21 21 Screen Screen land land hath bath no fury like a n film cut cut- cutt cutter cut cutter t ter r peeved Nor Kor is an adders adder's tooth sharper than his revenge I have just come upon Sf l t lion showing how the studio lab lab- labOratory lab laboratory oratory potentate exercises a 0 pow pow- power power er r out of all proportion to his nomi nominal nail nal modest estate The object of hI his Ire In this case cose is one of the best known featured women in pictures pic- pic pictures pic pictures tures employed by onet one of t the lead lead- leading lead leading ing companies though I may not mention names 1 This young lady It seems hat had everyone CM none on the set She bad favored all and sundry With ups ups close of the glassy SY stare Gall Call Galland Calland Galland and wormwood were mere distilled among amonI those who could not retail retail- retaliate at ate Apparently our haughty h beauty beau beau- beau ti t ty had bad gotten away with it But the man she had failed to consider although him she bad had not personally affronted was the film the cutter the man A ho takes the dal- dal daily dal dally ly shots and assembles them Into the maybe finished picture of who trims maybe feet of o celluloid to or who who puts many asnip a asnip asnip snip tl twixt cup and lip hp When our arrogant heroine sees the completed picture I 1 am told by those who have ha e watched the pro pro- process pro process cess of clipping she will sill be bc sur- sur surprised surprised sur surprised to find her footage shorn to the quick while 1 every e ery opportunity has been used to enl enhance the per per- performance per performance of o a lesser but more amiable ami- ami amiable ami amiable able co The public unaware un- un un unaware aware are of or this laboratory manipulation manipulation tion will wilt draw Its own conclusions as to the relative importance of othe the two s es o Man Many are the film reputations that have been hindered or fur fur- fur fur- furthered furthered furthered by the man with the shears who in this Instance was repay repay- repaying ling ing ing- repaying the score for tor his slighted friends In the cast I The film cutter Is given a deal of discretion in squeezing a picture I to the required length In Ia some studios star and director work with him and his bis personal judgment Is modified by their dictates F For or the I foremost stars the is suo su per very closely and every T 1 foot deleted must be he rigidly ac- ac accounted ac accounted counted for In other studios studios HATH HATHo o NO FURY rEE D I however there is no such close scrutinY v If It a 0 director asks the cutter culler What became 06 ot such and such sucha a close up 1 or any other ether takeo take m o 1 Q qA i INE BEi V JN r th t s missed very often oten the cas- cas casual cas casual ual answer 1 I Oh that was too rotten rot rot- rotten rot rotten ten to use will suffice Should the director Insist on n seeing it the deleted film tum is readily reinserted re re and d no particular harm done S s The slashing cuts necessitated by reducing roughage to tenth one-tenth for tor forthe the finished picture about the av- av average average av average In big productions often eliminates entirely the appearance of players who have gone through an entire picture on salary wary If Its It 3 a question of which of ot I several minor mtnor players to leave I ve Inthe In the selection Is often apt to be guided by the cutters cutter's very humanlike human humanlike humanlike like or dIslike for tor those with whom he Is 13 In such close contact on the sots And this In song cases cass as the one cited may range even to tant featured players It takes many brains and many manyI hands to make wake a movie LASt but by no means least Is the person person- personage personage personage I age who ho applies the clippers And wise Is the pIa player er who hO bears that In mind |