The article demonstrates what the editor’s role in film making, and it define editing: it is concerned with construction of a sequence of images and sounds of flowing continuity carried out by selecting the particular shot, timing or expanding it to a certain length, and determining the order in which the shots will appear and the kind of transition between them.

It also refine the nature of the editing work: including examining and cataloguing of picture and sound track footage, dialogue and narration, recorded on separate strip of magnetic tape.