A great story on the importance, and difficulties, of continuity editing

You can listen to this story on NPR.ORG.

When Continuity Counts, Call a Script Girl — Er, Guy

Morning Edition, February 21, 2008 · Next time you see The Wizard of Oz, notice how Dorothy falls into a muddy pigpen early in the film. Somehow, when she's rescued, her dress is spotless.

A similar "Huh?" moment occurs in The Untouchables. As Kevin Costner tries to persuade Sean Connery to help him fight the mob, Connery's shirt collar mysteriously flaps open and shut throughout the conversation.

And in Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts munches on a breakfast croissant that, abracadabra, turns into a pancake.

Movie goofs like these are the ultimate responsibility of the script supervisor — the guru of continuity on a movie set.

Heather Grove's edited photo

VOTE!

Who's the winner of our editing contest? Be SURE to look at all the 20+ photos (click the "older posts" at the bottom), and vote using the Comments function. My vote goes to Rebekah's "A Visit."

Look Out!

skyless

Year 3000

Sorry.. Kind of weird

Alyssa Flood's image

Igor's edited image

Lost

Random

A Visit

bliss

Where Am I?

It looks better when you see the larger image.

Forgot my glasses...

I think mine won

Hazy Dream

I like the concept of the line of focus and how different angles of the same picture can create different emotions in people. I also really really love black and white contrasted photos.

Sunlit Station

Trippy

A little warp, hue change and liquify for a post impressionistic look

Forced Focus

Red

Caution... Cleaning in Progress

My entry into the contest. With all cool artwork, it's the title that matters:
"Caution, Cleaning in Progress."

The Soviets perfected the art of airbrushing out of photos people who were once loyal Bolsheviks but, crazily, it turned out they were ACTUALLY Enemies of the People (Враг народа)... I have a great photo of Nikolai Ezhov (head of the Secret Police during the Purges) and Stalin and other Commie Cronies walking along the Moskva-Volga channel. And then the same photograph, with Ezhov magically obliterated. Stalin looks as though he's talking to himself.

Communist art.