His Girl Friday – between the lines edit (2005) by Valentin Spirik

 

Recut Classic, Experimental – 2005

Editor: Valentin Spirik

Director: Howard Hawks

Starring: Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell

 

His Girl Friday – between the lines edit (2005) is a radically shortened version of His Girl Friday

(http://www.archive.org/details/his_girl_friday) (1940): All the action without the dialogue, hard cuts for sound and picture only, strictly in chronological order. while no shots or sequences have been moved, some non-dialogue material did fall on the virtual final cut editing room floor (but no segment, sequence or scene has been left out). Although some of the finer details of the original story don’t come across in this non-dialogue version of the screwball comedy classic, the main elements of the story still somehow work – this is specially interesting since His Girl Friday, based on a play, is a dialogue intense movie.

 

http://www.archive.org/details/valentinspirikhisgirlfridaybetweenthelinesedit2005

 

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 – http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

 

Valentin Spirik

 

Austrian writer/director/editor. Many of the more recent works can be downloaded under a creative commons license via the indiworks blog (http://indiworks.wordpress.com/). Downloads include the 44 min. indi feature film Vincent (austria 1996/2005) and some more recent 3d works (made with the open-source blender http://blender.org/cms/Home.2.0.html). All videos are encoded with mpeg-4/h.264 and hosted via the Internet archive. Also see the “projects” tab on the indiworks blog for online audio/video related how-to links.

 

http://indiworks.wordpress.com

 

Valentin also contributes to the P2P Foundation Blog http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/ and wiki where he has been developing and maintaining a very useful audiovisual section http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Audiovisual