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Edward Porter discovered that cutting separate shots together could tell a story, and Stephen Spielberg used techniques like choosing the best frames to make the shark in Jaws look realistic. Invisible cuts mask transitions between frames, montage originated from Russia, and Margaret Booth was the supervising editor at MGM in the 1930s who helped establish continuity editing. The 1960 film Breathless broke conventions with techniques like jump cuts.

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The Cutting Edge Worksheet

Edward Porter discovered that cutting separate shots together could tell a story, and Stephen Spielberg used techniques like choosing the best frames to make the shark in Jaws look realistic. Invisible cuts mask transitions between frames, montage originated from Russia, and Margaret Booth was the supervising editor at MGM in the 1930s who helped establish continuity editing. The 1960 film Breathless broke conventions with techniques like jump cuts.

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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?

Edward Porter

Choose which frames worked and what did not

Invisible cuts

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

Margaret Booth

Breathless

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

Name one technique this film used...

Jump cuts

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