The document discusses the history of film editing from its beginnings to modern times. It describes how the Lumiere brothers captured early motion pictures in the late 1800s without any editing. The first film editor was the Moviola, invented in 1924, which allowed editors to precisely determine cut points. Russian cinema developed influential editing techniques like montage under Sergei Eisenstein. D.W. Griffith was an early American director who advanced editing with groundbreaking films like The Birth of a Nation in the early 1900s.

1. The history of film editing
Francesca Atkinson

2. How editing has changed over time.
 The history of film has had many changes up until today, which inevitably means that editing styles
have changed. Film first started out in the 1800's with no editing at all.

3. The Lumiere brothers.
 Auguste and his older brother Louis are credited with capturing the world’s
first motion picture films and holding the world’s first public screening.
 Their work consisted mainly of moving images from scenes of everyday life.
 The Lumiere Brothers have been credited with over 1,425 different short
films and had even filmed aerial shots years before the very first airplane
would take to the skies.
 An example of one of their films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk

4. The first film editor, the Moviola.
 A 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. Iwan Serrurier was a Dutch-born electrical engineer.
 The Moviola allowed editors to study individual shots in their cutting rooms, thus to determine
more precisely where the best cut-point might be.

5. 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. In the 21st century, Russian cinema has become popular
internationally with hits such as House of Fools, Night Watch, and the popular Brother.
Moscow International Film Festival is held in Moscow from 1935 and Nika Award is the
main annual national film award in Russia.
 Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, a
pioneer in the theory and practice of montage.
 One of Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein’s films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr3S6ItLMTo

6. D. W. Griffith
 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.
 One of his films:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr3S6ItLMTo