Edwin S. Porter's film The Life of an American Fireman (1903) was the first film to use post-production allowing it to bring the shot of the burning building together with the shot of the fire brigade together making a story. Today this is a very basic editing technique but then it was a very important new style helping cinematography develop.
The Life of an American Fireman
In 1924 Iwan Serrurier introduced the moviola machine making the film industry even more advanced. It was used by editors to view the film whist editing to prduce better cuts. it would be able to edit 35mm film stock. Some people described it as "a green sewing machine with legs", which is one of the reasons why women would be the people editing films.
The Moviola Machine
In the 1970's the flatbed editor was intorduced allowing the editors to 'cut and splice' the footage a lot quicker, otherwise known as linear editing. But due to technology advancing even more in the 1990's the flatbed editor was replaced by computers using non-linear software like Final Cut and Avid
A Flatbed Editor
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