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746. Film Pioneers

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Is She a Writer?

Margaret boot was an editor, but i feel we hear even less about female editors at the time. She had a brother who was a broadway actor, and he worked for w w Griffith. And so he offered her a job at the studio, where she became what was called a patcher. They didn't have any of the machines that came later that did help in the late twenties. So really, early on, it was just going off your eye and and doing these very small, tedious movements. It's fascinating. Why not? You cat pool not that real? Oh, all right. Should we move on to the next person? Yes.

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