The Mouth Left the Line

On “That’s a feathery munchkin” the mouth was gone. Not a soft take. A missing face. I cut to the sparrow while that line keeps going, then back to the action that already held. The audio does not change. The malformed mouth does not get another pass as the picture.

The laugh is a sound effect: a cheeky little giggle, not someone saying ha-ha on camera. The timeline math reaches 15,607 frames at 24 fps. PCM outside the silence ranges is left alone. The original ledger is still the original. The contact sheet is the first six seconds. That preview does not include the mouth.

The numbers checked out. The face did not. Tonight the cutaway is the repair.