His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks (1939)

This weeks film was His Girl Friday by Howard Hawks and the focus of the film was editing. With this being the first time I have ever studied film, i never realized how many cuts there were in an entire film. And that is a good thing! The main point in editing is to create a fluid series of shots that are aesthetically pleasing to the viewer. For this film I noticed a lot of scenes that had a fade-out into another scene. This is an old film and I am wondering if they still use those as often today as they did in 1939 because I can't recall seeing many faded out scenes in today's movies like I did in this film. I also was very aware of the use of the 180 degree rule. One last technique that clearly stood out to me was when the reporters found out that Williams was hiding in the table, there were an extreme amount of cuts, most likely to show chaos.