Filmmaker IQ

The History of Cutting - The Birth of Cinema and Continuity Editing (1x20)

Air date: Jan 20, 2014

Cinema began as a novelty - projecting dancing shadows on a screen of simple every day scenes. But through the contributions of talented artists, a new cinematic language of editing emerged. Trace the development of editing from The Lumiere Brothers through Georges Méliès, Edwin S. Porter, and D.W Griffith.