Editing, Digital Image Design, World-Building
in Projections
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Stephen Prince
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When Sam Peckinpah turned over his raw footage for Ride the High Country
(1962) to the MGM studio editor, she declared that the material he had filmed
for the final gunfight was incompetent and that it could not be edited together
in a coherent way. Viewed today, the scene does not seem especially
transgressive in its treatment of continuity, but in that earlier period when
studio editing rules were more conservative, Peckinpah’s disregard for standardized
camera set-ups and conventional coverage perplexed and infuriated
MGM’s editor.