Abstract: Devices for the fabrication, handling and critical positioning of pieces (or chips) of film which are to be processed by image compositing into special effects type slides. The devices are comprised of a chip handling tool having a grasping sector for maintaining the chip immovable relative to the tool, a plurality of chip retainers each comprising a placement reference guide for guiding the tool to a predetermined and invariably specific accessing and grasping sector of the chip, whereby when the jaws of the tool are firmly engaging with a chip the parameters of position orientation between the chip and the jaws define an unique location interrelationship between the chip and the jaws, such that when the chip is removed from a first chip retainer by the tool, and the jaws position referenced within the guide of a second chip retainer, the film piece is restored to a location and position relationship relative to the second chip retainer similar to that of the first chip retainer.