Assistant Professor Dustin Morrow, BTMM, explained how film editors manipulate time in an episode of “Academic Minute,” a new feature produced by Northeast Public Radio. “The incredible beauty of an editor’s work with time is his/her privilege to cut out life’s boring bits — inherently, this is one of the things that make movies so entertaining. For example, you may wish that instead of enduring your morning commute, the space around you could just dissolve from home to work. That works in the movies, but not in real life,” he said.

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