Sarah Mason, Inventor of the Continuity Script, First Script Supervisor
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The article highlights Sarah Mason, a pioneering female film editor and script supervisor who invented the continuity script, a crucial tool in filmmaking. The discussion revolves around the significance of her invention and the lack of records about her life and work.
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Strangely she left no records, was rarely if ever interviewed, and her invention was overshadowed by her own ability as a writer and her domineering husband who took credit for her work.
Notice the Columbia link makes no note of her core contribution to the film industry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Y._Mason
That Wikipedia page is self-contradictory about the script supervisor/continuity role, saying that she invented the it when sound feature films came in and also crediting her with it in movies 10 years before that. This one says she invented it in 1918: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_supervisor