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The document provides a timeline of key events in the history of film editing from 1882 to 1969. Some of the highlights include: - In 1882, Eadweard Muybridge proved through still photographs that horses have all four hooves off the ground when running, laying the groundwork for motion pictures. - In 1895, the Lumiere brothers held the first public film screening, presenting 10 short films to a paying audience in Paris. - Edwin Porter became a pioneering American filmmaker at Edison Studios in the late 1890s, directing some of the earliest American films including the famous 1903 western "The Great Train Robbery". - Lev Kuleshov developed theories of Soviet

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Timeline of Editing-2

The document provides a timeline of key events in the history of film editing from 1882 to 1969. Some of the highlights include: - In 1882, Eadweard Muybridge proved through still photographs that horses have all four hooves off the ground when running, laying the groundwork for motion pictures. - In 1895, the Lumiere brothers held the first public film screening, presenting 10 short films to a paying audience in Paris. - Edwin Porter became a pioneering American filmmaker at Edison Studios in the late 1890s, directing some of the earliest American films including the famous 1903 western "The Great Train Robbery". - Lev Kuleshov developed theories of Soviet

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Timeline of

Editing

1882
Between 1878 and 1884, Eadweard
Muybridge perfected his method of
horses in motion, proving that they do
have all four hooves off the ground
during their running stride.
The Horse in Motion is a series of stills
featuring a galloping racehorse and
was the first animal ever to be shown
in a moving image format.
Projecting the pictures in rapid
succession to reproduce the horse's
motion, Muybridge did much more
than just win Stanford the $25,000 he
reportedly bet on the outcome - he
laid the groundwork for the
development of motion pictures
cameras, and hence the entire
cinematic industry.

1895
The Lumiere brothers
(Auguste and Louis) held their first
private screening of projected
motion pictures.
Their first public screening of films
at which admission was charged
was held on December 28th 1895, at
Salon Indien du Grand Caf in Paris.
This history-making presentation
featured ten short films.
It is believed their first film was
actually recorded that same year
(1895)
The public debut at the Grand Caf
came a few months later and
consisted of the following ten short
films

1890
By 1890, Thomas Edison established the
Edison General Electric Company by
bringing his various businesses together.
Originally formed to manufacture and market
the Edison-Lalande primary battery, the
company manufactured and sold batteries for
use with telegraph, phonoplex, and telephone
systems, as well as for phonographs, dental
equipment, medical instruments, and other
machinery. It also produced kinetoscope films,
kinetoscopes, wax for phonograph cylinders, xray equipment, medical instruments, and
electric fans. The company had a factory at
Silver Lake (later named Bloomfield), New
Jersey, a sales office in New York City, and
agencies abroad. In 1905 its motion picture
operations were moved from Manhattan to a
studio in the Bronx. The company's assets and
property rights were assigned to Thomas A.
Edison, Inc., in February 1911. It was dissolved
on November 9, 1926.

1908
In 1907, D.W Griffith, still
struggling as a playwright,
traveled to New York in an
attempt to sell a script to Edison
Studios producer Edwin Porter.
Porter rejected Griffith's script,
but gave him an acting part in
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
instead.
In 1908, D.W Griffith created two
short films called The pirate gold
and For love of God which were
amazing for the time era they
were shot in, and showed a
variety of camera angles, and
started the trend for different
angles of camera shots.

1896
Edwin Porter was employed initially in the
electrical department of William Cramp &
Sons, a Philadelphia ship and engine building
company. During his three years' service he
showed aptitude as an inventor of electrical
devices to improve communications.
Porter entered motion picture work in 1896,
the first year movies were commercially
projected on large screens in the United
States. Returning to New York in early 1898,
Porter found work at the Eden Muse
In 1899 Porter joined the Edison Manufacturing
Company. Soon afterward he took charge of
motion picture production at Edison's New York
studios, operating the camera, directing the
actors, and assembling the final print. He
collaborated with several other filmmakers,
including George S. Fleming. During the next
decade Porter became the most influential
filmmaker in the United States.
His productions include the famous The Great
Train Robbery.

1943
Lev Kuleshov may well be the very
first film theorist as he was a leader in
Soviet montage theory developing his
theories of editing.
For Kuleshov, the essence of the cinema
was editing, the juxtaposition of one shot
with another. To illustrate this principle,
he created what has come to be known as
the Kuleshov Effect. In this now-famous
editing exercise, shots of an actor were
intercut with various meaningful images
(a casket, a bowl of soup, and so on) in
order to show how editing changes
viewers' interpretations of images.
In addition to his theoretical work,
Kuleshov was an active director of
feature-length films until 1943. Since
1943 Kuleshov was serving as the
academic rector of Gerasimov institute of
cinematography.

1969
Walter Murch

started editing and mixing


sound with Francis Ford Coppola's The Rain
People (1969). Subsequently, he worked on
George Lucas's THX 1138 and American Graffiti
and Coppola's The Godfather before editing
picture and mixing sound on Coppola's The
Conversation, for which he received an Academy
Award nomination in sound in 1974.
Murch also mixed the sound for Coppola's The
Godfather Part II which was released in 1974, the
same year as The Conversation. He did sound
design work on Apocalypse Now, for which he
won his first Academy Award in 1979. (He was
also significantly involved in the re-editing work
that resulted in the extended Apocalypse Now
Redux in 2001.) In 1985 he directed his own film,
Return to Oz, which he co-wrote with Gill Dennis.
Unlike most film editors today, Murch works
standing up, comparing the process of film
editing to "conducting, brain surgery and shortorder cooking", since all conductors, cooks and
surgeons stand when they work.

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