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leman Jim。 and They Drive By Night. Siegel told Peter Bogdanovich how his montages differed from the usual ones. . ? “Montages were done then as they39。re done now, oddly enough—very sloppily. ? The director casually shoots a few shots that he presumes will be used in the ? montage and the cutter grabs a few stock shots and walks down with them to the ? man who39。s operating the optical printer and tells him to make some sort of ? mishmash out of it. He does, and that39。s what39。s labeled montage In contrast, Siegel would read the motion picture39。s script to find out the story and action, then take the script39。s one line description of the montage and write his own five page script. The directors and the studio bosses left him alone because no one could figure out what he was doing. Left alone with his own crew, he constantly experimented to find out what he could do. He also tried to make the montage match the director39。s style, dull for a dull director, exciting for an exciting director. The End.