Orson Welles on film editing.

This is a moviola, it's a movie

editing

machine, but when we say we're

editing

or cutting a movie, we're not really saying that enough movies aren't just made on set, a lot of the

film

making happens right here. so a moviola like this is almost as important as a camera here

film

s are saved, sometimes saved from disaster or savagely deleted this is the last stop on the long road between the dream and the head of a filmmaker and the public to whom that dream is addressed turned to carlisle and said that almost everything examined in sufficient depth will turn out to be a musical course, this is profoundly true, films have movements, films move and then there is the movement from one image to another , there is a rhythmic structuring in that counterpoint, harmony and dissonance. a film is never right until it's right musically and this moviola, this filmmaker's tool is a kind of musical instrument, it's here where other cinematic instruments are tuned and finally orchestrated, so if you find me ending our conversation here, you'll understand What a filmmaker I am.

I'm talking to you from my home.