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This Is The Era
Os The Quick Cut
By VERNON SCOTT
CPI Hollywood Correspondent
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) —ln the
fast-paced swiftly changing
style of motion pictures, no
craft plays a more important
role than the art of film cutting
and editing.
In ancient cinematic times,
say 20 or 30 years ago, movies
were lengthened and slowed by
transition scenes, taking the
audience from one story point
to another.
You can see the old-fashioned
techniques on the late late show
almost any evening.
Major movies were filled with
lengthy dissolves and slow
fades. A dissolve or a fade
sometimes involves hundreds of
frames of film.
Today is the era of the quick
cut. Bank, you pop from one
scene to another without
bothering to explain to audien
ces that you are in different
place or different day.
The reason for this, according
to Warner Bros, film editor Jim
Heckert, is that audiences are
hip. They know what’s coming.
“In the old days you’d show
people going into an elevator.
Then you’d cut to a shot of the
needle showing the elevator
going up,” he explained. “Final
ly you’d show them getting off
at the sixth floor.
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“That’s not necessary any
more. You simply show the
actors getting on the elevator
and getting off—if the elevator
is important to the story. If not
you pick up the actors on the
sixth floor in the building. It
isn’t important how they got
there.”
Heckert credits television
with speeding up the flow of
movies.
“A half-hour TV show has
about 26 minutes to tell its
story. The directors don’t have
time for extraneous transitions.
Viewers know what’s going on
and what to expect without
explanation.
“I’m working on ‘Sweet
November’ right now. It will
take about five weeks to edit.
I’ll probably end up with 600 or
700 cuts, or one cut every 20
feet in the film.”
The film editor sits with the
director during screening of the
previous day’s shooting, taking
notes while the director explains
which particular shot he favors.
The editor then returns to his
work room with a movieola, a
machine that allows him to edit
the film oae frame at a time.
He spends hours going over
and over the same footage until
his splices are made, giving the
movie a smooth and rapid flow.
TV CAMEOS: Leonard Nimoy
There IS a Mr. Spock, Do You Understand?
By MEL HEIMER
MR. SPOCK, who wears one
hat and one alone, is not to be
confused with Doctor Spock,
who wears two.
The doctor, aa the headlines
testify, wishes to be known as
a gentleman who knows all
about babies and also, some
what at right angles, as a man
who parades for peace In Viet
nam. Mr. Spock wants to be
known only as one person: Mr.
Spock.
“I know, I know,” says dark,
Intense-looking Leonard Nimoy,
who is William Shatner's co
star on NBC-TV’s “Star Trek,”
“I’m running the big risk of
being typecast, of being known
only as a soul from outer space.
“But I don’t buy that. I want
people to believe in Mr. Spock’s
existence, to get wrapped up
in his doings—and not to get
the feeling, because I might
play it more off-handedly, that
it’s just another actor in a
role. I’ve got to play him for
all he's worth, and if I become
too closely associated with the
part, it’s just my tough luck.
The way I feel, however, is that
if I do make you believe in
Spock, I’m a good actor and
movie and television bigwigs
will remember it.”
• « •
THE Boston-bom Nimoy has
gone about the task so diligent
ly that he and the producer,
director and writers of ‘Trek”
have gone over Mr. Spock’s
“life” for hours on end. They
know why he looks as he does,
with his fabulous pointed ears
(he had an earth mother and a
father from another planet)
and, begging Actor’s Studio’s
pardon, his motivation.
"Spock is not really unemo
tional, as it sometimes may
seem,” Leonard says, “but,
rather, he came to the U.S.S.
Enterprise, the space ship, from
a planet where inhabitants de
liberately learned to control
their emotions and rule them
selves by logic and reason —
because they've learned that
unchecked emotions have ruined
many civilizations.
“On Spock's native planet, to
give way to emotion or ttJ dis
play it, is a sign of weakness
and almost disgrace. His peo
ple are fair and have character,
but they are governed, by
choice, by their minds rather
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IMMOBILE MOBILE HOMES is a development of that industry, according to a recent
survey by a major life insurance company, which revealed that 85 per eent of all
12-foot-wide mobile homes move only once—from the factory to the mobile home
park. The owner of this trailer, for example, encircled it with stone and added a
room and a carport, hardly a pick-up-and-go situation. Mobile home owners, the survey
II™!-!’ an avera l e °‘ oa s e ever y four y ears > compared to five for residents of
permanent homes according to the survey, made by Northwestern National Life.
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Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock: Hit on.
goal It to get you to believe hit role.
than their hearts.”
The single-minded devotion of
Nimoy to the role of Spock is,
in away, typical of his life.
The son of Russian-born par
ents, he always has wanted to
act —against his parents’ wish
es—and has never swerved from
that aim. Os course, there have
been long, lean years and he
has worked at other trades.
Such as* jockeying a cab, in Los
Angeles.
• • •
“I DID it for three months,”
Leonard recalls, “and had one
memorable experience. I drove
the then senator from Massa
chusetts, John F. Kennedy,
from one hotel to another for
a political meeting—and in that
10 minutes, he must have asked
me more than a hundred ques
tions. He picked apart my life,
my environment, my family and
everything else — and I then
could understand why he was
such a, well, Renaissance man.
It was as if he wanted to know
all about everything in the
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world, and maybe he came clos
er than most men to just that.
“Os course, when we pulled
up to the Beverly Hilton, he
forgot to pay the fare and I
had to chase him inside—where,
as I remember, he borrowed the
money from a desk clerk.”
Years of struggle began end
ing for Nimoy when he had the
lead in a B movie and then be
gan reaping choice TV roles.
Gene Roddenberry, “Star
Trek’s” creator, saw him in a
“Dr. Kildare" segment once and
said flatly “I’m going to make
a science fiction series and put
pointed ears on that guy.” He
did and Mr. Spock arrived.
• » »
MARRIED and the father of
two, Leonard lives in W. Los
Angeles and has another bud
ding career: singer. He has an
album out now and listeners
will be delighted at his kind of
smoothed-out Walter Huston
voice. You might say he has
great emotion in his voice—b-‘
don’t let Mr. Spock hear :