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midterm Quiz 5
meeks' editing theory and aesthetics midterm
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
02/25/2013

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World War I
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During the early years of the American film industry, what external event opened up jobs in the editing room, even for teenagers?
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Six one-reelers and one two-reeler
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How many films did Bill Hornbeck, an early editor for Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, indicate that the studio produce each week?
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The advent of "talkies" and the requirements of synchronization
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What factor ended the practice by editors of testing the rhythm of an edited sequence by pulling it through their fingers as they edited it?
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By eye, matching actions and other visual cues.
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According to Margaret Booth, editor-in-chief at MGM for thirty years, how did early editors cut film negative to match the finished positive?
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Directors and cameramen
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Before the advent of the position of editor, who does early editor Clarence Brown say edited films?
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It varied from set to set and from studio to studio.
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In the early days of American film, how much power and control did the editor exert?
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1920
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By when did the film industry begin to have name editors, who commanded higher salaries, and were called in to cut top features?
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The double feature.
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The advent of what phenomenon created the need for editors to recut and shorten older releases to make them suitable for a second run?
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Call back scattered actors for retakes
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What did film editor Daniel Mandell say that producers hate more than anything?
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They have never gotten the credit and recognition they deserve.
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Rosenblum concludes chapter 5 by arguing what about film editors, especially the early cutters?
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