TR899.R67

Introduction: The Hands behind the Seams * The Night They Raided Minskys; Part I: A Month for Nine Minutes * The Night They Raided Minskys; Part II: Life Sentence * From a Recording Medium to an Art Form; The Invention of Editing * Bolshevik Editors; The Fanatics of the Cutting Room * The Birth of a Profession; Technicians with Dreams * From the Shadows of Bensonhurst; Portrait of the Editor as a Young Man * The Office of War Information * Apprenticeship with the Documentary Guys * Robert Flaherty and Helen van Dongen; The Collaboration That Sustained a Legend * Making It; The TV Pressure Cooker * The Pawnbroker; Part I: The Re-creation of the Flashback * The Pawnbroker; Part II: X-Rays of the Mind * A Thousand Clowns; Part I: Flouting Convention * A Thousand Clowns; Part II: A Style Arrived at by Repair * The Producers; Not Just Another Funny Picture * Goodbye Columbus; The Face on the Cutting Room Floor * My Problem with Directors * Take the Money and Run; The Film They Wouldnt Release * Scenes from a Marriage; Working with Woody on Bananas, Sleeper, and Love and Death * Annie Hall; It Wasnt the Film He Set Out to Make * Swan Song

The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking--film editing--is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers, and Goodbye, Columbus. Rosenblum and journalist Robert Karen have written both a history of the profession and a personal account, a highly entertaining, instructive, and revelatory book that will make any reader a more aware movie-viewer.