ABSTRACT
In The Parade’s Gone By Brownlow wrote: ‘Editing is directing the film for the second time. To gauge the psychological moment-to know exactly where to cut-requires the same intuitive skill as that needed by a director Every film presents the editor with an imprecise agenda. Without experience it is natural to conclude that a well-cut film only requires the editor to put the pieces together in the right order. In fact, no editor believes that his task is simply to find the one perfect conjunction that is just waiting to be discovered. If this were so cutting would be analogous to jigsaw solving.
