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            • cross-cutting
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            • Also known as inter-cutting or parallel editing. The act of alternating two different scenes – usually in different locations – to suggest parallel action. New York Film Academy
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            • A main theme of cross-cutting, whether macro or micro is that the cross-cut events do eventually meet, whether geographically or just dramatically. - Film Editing Pro by
            • No scene in The Godfather is more famous, editing-wise, than the baptism scene—the film’s bravura climax. This scene utilizes the editing technique known as cross-cutting, or parallel editing - the seventies by
            • It also featured multiple camera positions, filming out of sequence and later editing the scenes into their proper order. There were 14 scenes with parallel cross-cutting between simultaneous events in its narrative story with multiple plot lines. - filmsite by
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