The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking-film editing-is here told by one of the wizards Ralph Rosenblum whose credentials include six Woody Allen films as well as The Pawnbroker The Producers and Goodbye Columbus. Rosenblum and journalist Robert Karen have written both a history of the profession and a personal account a highly entertaining instructive and revelatory book that will make any reader a more aware movie-viewer.