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By critttter

critttter (http://www.videosift.com/member/critttter) — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:42:12 -0700

Fascinating how editing has evolved over the years, the long takes for the sake of exposition are so dated. I was watching a film from the 50's the other day, and everybody constantly used the other character's name, I'm sure it was to help make the exposition more obvious. A very respected editor named Walter Murch wrote a book called "In The Blink Of An Eye", which addresses this...editing has evolved to work with our natural pacing of eye blinks, exposition unfolds in our current idea of 'real time'...
If this film were made today, the exposition would take up maybe ten percent of the film, and the rest would be hallucinatory dream visuals, the reverse of this...

By schmawy

schmawy (http://schmawy.videosift.com) — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:53:51 -0700

*promote so more people can read that^ insightful comment. And more votes. Buy ~~War Bonds~~ Power Points, Folks!

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:53:51 -0700

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Friday, May 16th, 2008 9:47am PDT - promote requested by original submitter schmawy.