The Editing Room Floor

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The editing room floor.

They re like cliff s notes for your favorite movies except cliff thinks your favorite movie sucks. The term cutting room floor is used in the film industry as a figure of speech referring to unused footage not included in the finished film. Abridged scripts are short ish screenplays for films that just cover the highlights. The editing room has been around since 1998 and features over 1 000 abridged scripts for movies.

The scene featured in this post is one of those strange deleted scenes where photos have trickled out over decades but no description or script for the scene is in public hands. My introduction to the mighty van halen this photo captures the raw exuberance of a young david lee roth. A few scenes like the one below were cut during the editing process before the film was released. The editing room floor august 4 2014 gary pihl is the only person besides tom scholz to perform on every boston tour.

They re like cliff s notes for your favorite movies except cliff thinks your favorite movie sucks. Outside of the film industry it may refer to any creative work unused in the final product. The editing room floor all the news that s fit to print that didn t fit in print. Abridged scripts are short ish screenplays for films that just cover the highlights.

In fact offcuts of film are retained in a special cutting room bin and numbered during the editing process in case they are required later. But there s an asterisk.