LOOKING AT EDITING 37914 Closer view of the stage. The play continues. 10 MLSINTERTITLE:To get a view of the play, the bodyguard leaves his post.15 Bodyguard [as in shot 10]. He is clearly impatient. 4 MS
16 Close view of the stage [as in shot 14]. 2 MLS
17 The bodyguard [as in shot 15]. He gets up and puts his chair away 6 MS
behind a side door.
18 As in shot 6, the theater viewed from the back of the auditorium. 3 LS
Camera is shooting toward the box of Lincoln’s party [next to Lincoln’s
box] as the bodyguard enters and takes his place. [This shot is framed
exactly as shot 6, but a closing-iris effect is added to isolate our
gaze toward the bodyguard arriving at the box.]
19 Within a circular mask, we see a closer view of the action of shot 18. 5 MS
The bodyguard takes his place in the box. The closing iris of the
previous shot is repeated in this closer shot, consolidating continuity.
INTERTITLE:Time: 10:13 Act III, Scene 220 A general view of the theater from the back of the auditorium; a 5 LS
diagonal mask leaves only Lincoln’s box visible.
21 Elsie and Ben. Elsie points to something in Lincoln’s direction. 6 MS
INTERTITLE:John Wilkes Booth22 The head and shoulders of John Wilkes Booth seen in an iris shot. 3 MS
23 As in shot 21, Elsie looks in Lincoln’s direction. 6 MS
24 As in shot 22, Booth. 2.5 MS
25 View showing both Lincoln’s box and the one next to it, with 5 MLS
Booth waiting by the door.
26 As in shot 24, Booth. 4 MS
27 As in shot 14, close view of the stage. 4 MLS
28 Close view of Lincoln’s box. Lincoln smiles approvingly at the play. 8 MS
He makes a gesture with his shoulders as if he were cold and starts
to pull a shawl over his shoulders.
29 As in shot 22, Booth moves his head up in the act of rising from his seat. 4 MS
30 Shot 28 continued. Lincoln finishes pulling on his shawl. 6 MS
31 As in shot 20, the theater viewed from the back of the auditorium. 4 LS
The mask spreads to reveal the whole theater.