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Glenn Farr sits at a shiny silver metal table amid boxes of red and yellow plastic film cores. For 12 hours a day, his world is the acrid environment of an editing room, where rolls of film twisting back and forth always leave a slightly burnt smell in the air.

So began Alijean Harmetz's 1982 New York Times article about the editing of Philip Kaufman's movie adaptation of the Tom Wolff novel, The Right Stuff.

Baldish, bearded and dressed in blue jeans and a maroon pullover, Mr. Farr sits at his KEM editing machine focusing on ''a way to deceive the viewers'' of ''The Right Stuff'' when the movie is released. He is searching for the ''little moment'' that will bridge the staged and the real footage.

Farr wasn't alone in his endeavors. Kaufman worked with Glenn Farr and Tom Rolf, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen Rotter, and Douglas Stewart to get through an enormous volume of rushes and archive film.

Stacked in bins on the walls of the cavernous former cannery that is ''The Right Stuff's'' headquarters are 600 rolls of stock footage containing 500,000 feet of reality from the past. To get the 500,000 feet, Mr. Farr looked at ''hundreds of miles of film'' at the National Archives in Washington and at ''at least one million of NASA's nine million feet of film".