Task 2a - Technical Developments

  • Film Splicer by hand

    Film Splicer by hand
    There is no exact date to when this was used. But it was first done by hand in the great train robbery.
  • Moviola

    Moviola
    This was used to allow the film editor to see what he was editing and look at each individual shot. It was the first machine for motion picture editing when it was invented by Iwan Serrurier in 1924.
  • Tape To Tape

    Tape To Tape
    Linear editing was the original method of editing electronic video tapes, before editing computers became available in the 1990s.
  • Flatbed

    Flatbed
    Developed from the moviola machine. Picture and sound rolls load onto separate motorized disks, called "plates." Each set of plates moves forward or backward separately, or locked together to maintain synchronization between picture and sound.