In the Blink of an Eye

Chapter 14- Methods and Machines: Marble and Clay

• A Moviola- a standup editing machine- which looks and sounded like a sewing machine.
• KEM- a horizontal editing machine which handles the film more gently.
• The tools you choose to edit with can have a determining effect on the final product.
• In re-editing what you thought was originally unusable may come to be your salvation.
• An ordinary film will have 700, 1,000, 2,000 set ups with more than two printed take per set up on average.
• As the scene is reworked and refined it reaches a point, hopefully, where the shots themselves seem to create each other.