Ultra Rare! Smith Block Editing Video…A Fine Follow Up

On October 18, 2014 - TV History

Ultra Rare! Smith Block Editing Video…A Fine Follow Up

Here is a short video of a BBC engineer editing 2″ tape with the Smith Block. There has been a lot of interest in the two prior posts this week and this is the perfect piece to top off this subject.

This is from this link http://www.vtoldboys.com/edit.htm# and there is other interesting early video tape editing information here, including how early electronic editing was done. Thanks thanks to Pat Phos Martin for sharing this with us. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee
http://www.vtoldboys.com/editm01.htm

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3 Comments

  1. Tori Lexi Kensington October 18, 2014

    That was really cool! I am glad to learn about it and it NOT be on the job training. !

  2. Dave Dillman October 18, 2014

    In practice, the edit point had generally to be found from the audio track. Tape was racked back and forth over the audio head (just like audio tape) and marked (considering the audio/video off set).

  3. Dave Sica October 18, 2014

    Before my time. Fascinating. And we thought working with the early electronic editing systems was difficult!