Editing Margaret Booth (section)

===1915–1921: Editing for D. W. Griffith===
By 1915, Booth had graduated from [[Los Angeles High School]]. Griffith hired Booth on a salary for ten dollars a week as one of several female editors for his studio.{{sfn|Acker|1991|p=221}} Booth remembered years later, "...in the old days we had to cut negative by eye. We matched the print to the negative without any edge numbers. We had to match the action. Sometimes there'd be a tiny pinpoint on the negative, and then you knew you were right, but it was very tedious work."{{sfn|Brownlow|1968|p=302}}{{sfn|Malone|2017|p=35}} One of the films she worked on was ''[[Orphans of the Storm]]'' (1921) starring [[Lillian Gish]]. After a few months, Booth worked for [[Paramount Pictures]]' editing department, assembling the tinted sections for release prints.{{sfn|Brownlow|1968|p=302}}