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But the struggle to understand and define editing’s role, articulated for close to a decade in the pages of the American trade press, required its own cutting and revising. For the development of editing techniques did not strictly follow a prescribed trajectory that would have made them tools akin to those of the scenario reviser or the newspaper editor; instead these techniques were developed and discussed in opposition to the text-derived paradigm of film editing as a post-production crafting process where films were shaped, versioned and, finally, locked – the dominant idea of “editing” as we have come to know it.