Editing Monty Python's Life of Brian (section)

===Rough cut and pre-screenings===
Following shooting between 16 September and 12 November 1978,<ref name="MONTYPYTHONSCRAPBOOK" /> a two-hour [[rough cut]] of the film was put together for its first private showing in January 1979. Over the next few months ''Life of Brian'' was re-edited and re-screened a number of times for different preview audiences, losing a number of entire filmed sequences.<ref name="From Fringe to Flying Circus" />