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Hébert also uses “Grifhold blades and bevelled pounce wheels, because these are more durable than exacto blades . . . which wear very quickly.”^[9] The material factor is thus a considerable one in the choice of tool, a choice based on the visual appearance of the tool’s contact with the film stock.

Blades also enable the filmmaker to scrape the film stock. Caroline Leaf’s work on film stock for her film Two Sisters (1991) is an example of this, as she used very sharp knife blades to scrape “70 mm colour film stock which had been exposed to light and then developed” before re-photographing it in “35 mm colour for projection.”^[10]