Historically Speaking…History Of Editing


Historically Speaking…

This is a very interesting history of the way television shows were broadcast and recorded first to Kinescopes and later to videotape and how they were edited. Did you know ‘Laugh In’ episodes took over 50 hours to edit? This take us all the way up to Avid systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIVYeyWHajE

Trace the history of modern day film editing – starting with electronic engineers developing solutions for capturing and editing television through to the fi…

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2 Comments

  1. BBC and their ‘Vera’ tape machine pre-empted AMPEX by 4 years, but AMPEX made it work far better.

  2. Jarbas Jam Mesquita July 19, 2013

    Fascinating!