What is the motion picture industry? How involved is the process of filmmaking?

According to WEBSTER'S SEVENTH NEW COLLEGIATE DICTIONARY, an industry of any kind is " ..a distinct group of productive enterprises.." If you were to break down that phrase of superlative adjectives and nouns, you would probably come up with something like this: two or more figures forming a complete and distinguishable unit which has the power to abundantly produce complicated projects. That's for industry. Add filmmaking and you've got a highly complex unit of techniques and personnel which can turn simple sheets of paper into a fast-speed, exhilarating academy-award winning motion picture.

Easy? Not in the least. Fascinating? Indubitably.

It's both this complexity and utterly astounding uniqueness of The Industry (and we don't mean just any industry) on which CUT! PRINT! focuses. From a look at the studio complex, including its departments and personnel, to actual film production procedures, the intriguing language and structure of filmmaking is captured.