Editing Margaret Booth (section)

==Death and legacy==
On October 28, 2002, Booth, at age 104, died from complications after suffering a [[Cerebral hemmorage|stroke]]. She is interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood California.<ref name="LATimes" /> In their obituary for Booth, the British newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]'' stated, "All the filmmakers had to go through her in order to have a final editing of sound and vision approved," while describing her approach:{{quote|She was a pioneer of the classic editing style, the so-called "invisible cutting", the aim of which was to make the transition from one image to another as seamless as possible, so the audience was almost unaware of the flow of shots within a sequence. Narrative was dominant, maintaining a continuity of time and space, and matching cuts to action.<ref name="The Guardian" />}}