This power point explains everything you need to know about the history of editing, from when editors had to actually cut film strips to it all being computerized.

1. The History of Editing
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2. When the film industry first started out there was no suchthing as editing, theyfilmed untilthe reel ran out or theygot
bored. Early films were short films that were one long, static, and locked-down shot. Motion inthe shot was all that was
necessary to amuse an audience, so the first films simply showed activity such as traffic moving on a city street. Theuse of
History

3. Moviola
 Moviola is a device that allows a film editor to view film while editing. It was
the first machine for motion picture editing when it was invented by Iwan
Serrurier in 1924. Moviola the company is still in existence and is located in
Hollywood where part of the facility is located on one of the original Moviola
factory floors.
 Iwan Serrurier's original 1917 concept for the Moviola was as a home movie
projector to be sold to the general public. The name was derived from the
name "Victrola" since Serrurier thought his invention would do for home
movie viewing what the Victrola did for home music listening. But since the
machine cost $600 in 1920, very few sold. An editor at Douglas Fairbanks
Studios suggested that Iwan should adapt the device for use by film editors.
Serrurier did this and the Moviola as an editing device was born in 1924 with
the first Moviola being sold to Douglas Fairbanks himself.

4. The Lumiere Brothers
 TheLumièrebrothers,Augusteand Louis,weresons of wellknown Lyons based portraitpainterAntoine
Lumière. Theywere both technicallyminded andexcelled in sciencesubjectsand weresentto TechnicalSchool.
 Theirfather,Claude-AntoineLumière, rana photographic firm whereboth brothersworked for him Louisasa
brothersworked for himLouis asa physicist andAugusteasa manager.Louishad made some improvements to
Louishad made some improvements to thestill-photograph process, themost notable being the dry-plate
most notablebeing thedry-plate process, whichwas amajor step towardsmoving images. Itwas notuntiltheir
moving images. It wasnotuntiltheirfatherretiredin 1892 thatthebrothersbegan to createmoving pictures.
began to createmoving pictures.
 It is believed theirfirstfilm wasactuallyrecordedin 1895withLéonBouly'scinématographedevice,
Bouly'scinématographedevice, which waspatentedthe previous year.Thecinématographe —a three-
Thecinématographe—athree-in-onedevice thatcould record,develop,andprojectmotionpictures—
andprojectmotionpictures—wasfurtherdeveloped bytheLumières.

5. The Russian Cinema
 The cinema of Russia began in the Russian Empire, widely developed in
the Soviet Union and in the years following its dissolution, the Russian film
industry would remain internationally recognized.
 The first films seen in the Russian Empire were brought in by the Lumière
brothers, who exhibited films in Moscow and St. Petersburg in May 1896.
That same month, Lumière cameraman Camille Cerf made the first film in
Russia, recording the coronation of Nicholas II at the Kremlin.

6. D.W. Griffiths
 David Llewelyn Wark was an American film director, mostly remembered
as the director of the 1915 film ‘The Birth of a Nation’ and the subsequent
film ‘Intolerance’.
 Griffith began making short films in 1908, and released his first feature,
Judith of Bethulia, in 1913
 The film has been extremely controversial for its negative depiction of
African Americans, white unionists, and the Reconstruction, and its
positive portrayal of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan. The film was
subsequently both lionized for its radical technique and condemned for its
racist philosophy. Filmed at a cost of $110,000, it returned millions of dollars
in profits, making it, perhaps, the most profitable film of all time, although
a full accounting has never been made.