Margaret Booth 1937 Editor at MGM Studio

This woman is emblematic of the fine art of film editing through the Twentieth Century. (She lived 104 years, from the end of the Nineteenth Century through the beginning of the Twenty-First Century). When Booth began, she was one of the industry’s “cutters”, and her life’s work elevated that technical task into (finally) a highly respected part of the art of making movies.

- Bison Archives and HollywoodHistoricPhotos.com

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