170 · Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound dialog and sound effects for. He worked for free, as I had done so many years ago, because he loves the creative process. I can never repay him for the countless hours and creative genius he brought to my film. I will be forever in his debt. The film went on to show at two film festivals, the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and the Marco Island Film Festival. I hope someday to direct a feature--if I can only catch a break, or maybe a series of them. RON ROOSE Ron Roose is not only a picture editor, but a sound assistant, a sound editor, as well as a writer. As a picture editor his credits include The World According to Garp, Vendetta, Searching for Bobby Fisher, Hoffa, My Body, My Child. He worked on Serpico as an assistant picture editor, and as a sound editor he's worked on The Princess Bride and The Wiz. On the first day I ever spent in the cutting room of a feature film, I brewed 10 pots of cof- fee, made 8 copies of the lined script, and respliced the first 6 reels of the film. On the sec- ond day, I respliced the last 6 reels, again made the coffee, xeroxed the camera and sound reports, and was assigned the elevated task of sending the work picture and work track out to be duped. And not just the work picture and work track, I had to make dupes of the alternate cuts and lifts in case the director decided to include one of those variations in his film. Time was of the essence, I was told. The sound crew was anxiously awaiting the dupes so that they could split the dialog tracks, split off the production effects to a pro- duction FX track, build tracks of FX not previously in the film, and record the Foley cues and build the Foley tracks. When all was done, the units for the 12-reel film (1000 foot reels) lined every wall of my room; units that had to be carried back and forth from the cutting room on the West Side of New York City to Reeves Sound Studios where we were mixing on the East Side (try finding a cab midday in midtown Manhattan; worse, try find- ing a cab in the rain). Figure 7.9 Ron Roose, picture editor, sound editor, and writer.