Kyle Harrison
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In the Blink of an Eye

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
Author
Walter Murch
Published
1995
Pages
160
Recommended
Once
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Why it’s on the list: The editor of Apocalypse Now and The English Patient on why cuts work, including his rule of six for deciding where to cut and the link between cuts and blinking.

Where I heard about it

  • r/obscurePDFs — posted as a PDF in May 2019 (post). The book is in print, so the shared copy was not archived. Routing record: The obscurePDFs Subreddit.

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