ABSTRACT
Film editing or, as it is commonly called, "cutting/' is unique. It is the one art or craft that is indigenous to motion pictures. All other film arts are borrowed or adapted. Stories and acting are as old as civilization, at least. So is music. Photography has its antecedents in pictorial art, and chemical means of recording images date back to the early ninteenth century. Film editing, which owes little except nomenclature to literary editing, was brought to life by motion pictures and it, in turn, brought motion pictures to life.
