Cutting Edge

When films were first introduced the french never used to edit so their film would be based on peoples life and surroundings which people liked to watch. The french would only stop filming when the film ended or they got bored.

The editing started with a French man who edited a filmed with a house on fire this film was edited which people thought was strange how one scene would be of a woman trapped in a house and the next was of the firemen.

Eisenstein created Battleship Potemkin which in the film the untouchables took with the pram falling down the stairs.
some film makers use film's to make people join the Revelations as in Russia and other times when their was war.


When editing first really started they used a machine called a Moviola which people used to call it a sowing machine. The first ever people to edit were woman the reason was for this was because editing was like knitting which was the reason for woman to edited. Men came into the picture when they started to use audio.A two hour movie would have over 200 hours of film, thousand shots in a whole film and 1-24 in 30 seconds.


A director know as Lev Kuleshov used juxtaposition of an Italian man showing the same expression and three different shots of a bowl of soup, a woman crying over her dead husbands coffin and a child cuddling a teddy bear editing this together it gave three different expressions on what the man was feeling even though the expression was the same.