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Quote by Vsevolod Pudovkin
Once more I repeat that editing is the creative force of filmic reality, and that nature provides only the raw material with which it works.
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The speaker presents editing as the process that gives filmed images their meaning and structure. Nature supplies what the camera records, but editing selects, arranges, and connects that material into the reality of a film. The comparison separates raw footage from the creative work of shaping it into a finished experience.
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- Film Technique and Film Acting (1929), V. I. Pudovkin
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- Official Statement
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