Editing Freaks (1932 film) (section)

===Filming===
''Freaks'' began [[principal photography]] in November 1931,{{efn|Film historian Gregory William Mank states production began on November 9, 1931,{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=124}} though Thomas Doherty in ''Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934'' (1999) writes that principal photography began November 2, the same day as ''[[Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)|Tarzan the Ape Man]]''.{{sfn|Doherty|1999|p=11}}}} with a 24-day shooting schedule.{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=124}} At the time of the production's beginning, the film had a budget of approximately $209,000,{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=124}} though it would eventually expand to more than $300,000.{{efn|name=budget}} The film was shot on the MGM studio lot in [[Culver City, California]].{{sfn|Doherty|1999|p=11}} Baclanova recalled her time first meeting her co-stars on the set:

{{blockquote|Tod Browning, I loved him. He say, "I want to make a picture with you, Olga Baclanova...&nbsp; Now I show you with whom you are going to play. But don't faint." I say, "Why should I faint?" So he takes me and shows me all the freaks there. First I meet the midget and he adores me because we speak German and he's from Germany. Then he shows me the girl that's like an orangutan; then a man who has a head but no legs, no nothing, just a head and a body like an egg. Then he shows me a boy who walks on his hands because he was born without feet. He shows me little by little and I could not look. I wanted to cry when I saw them. They have such nice faces, but it is so terrible...&nbsp; Now, after we start the picture, I like them all so much.{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=125}}}}

During the shoot, the film had already begun to draw disgusted reactions, resulting in MGM segregating the film's cast and crew to a separate cafeteria so that "people could get to eat in the commissary without throwing up."{{sfn|Smith|2012|p=93}} Filming was completed on December 16, 1931, and Browning began retakes on December 23.{{sfn|Mank|2005|p=125}}