>>The reel changes ARE edits (in the sense of
'cuts'), btw.
hmm . . . maybe, maybe not . . . if an edit is understood as any
mechanical process of attaching one length of film to another, regardless of
what images are on those two lengths of film, then yes, reel changes are ipso
facto edits
but if we understand editing more phenomenologically as a shift
– however big or small – is the perceptual POV provided by two lengths of film
where they join, then reel changes of the kind hitchcock employed are not
strictly speaking cuts
mike
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