Notes from Cutting Edge

- Old film makers simply held the camera on a shot until they got bored or ran out of film.

- Thomas Edison's assistant discovered that you can cut and stick film reel together to make different shots.

- editing can slow down time or speed it up
- 1/24th of a second in each frame.

- 200 hours is the average feature film length, takes 8 months to a year to cut down to a 2 hour film

- editing is invisible art - the audience doesnt see the edit as it is a smooth cut

- editors weren't seen as important just hands for hire

- Director and editor have the closest relationship throughout the whole crew

- first editng equipment is called a Movieola, its described as a sewing machine

- it was called a sewing machine as it was very sexist era, editing was unimportant, normally seen as a womans job

-D.W Griffiths first recognized editor

- Russian editing most important editing in history