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Widescreen composition can in fact give added intensity to traditional compositions and editing patterns: “A combination of the moving camera, changes of scale, and the exploitation of the screen’s full width, can achieve effects of unusual power or delicacy”.^[4] The most significant observation they offer, though, is that widescreen composition may indeed reduce the necessary amount of editing, as “the combination of widescreen and camera movement together […] produce an effect which makes unnecessary the cut one might have looked for in the past”.^[5] Yet editing remains a technique as viable and significant in the widescreen era.