Timeline Analog 4. John Buck

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      In the spring of 1924, a small Germany company Lyta Cinema Works built the first dedicated editing device. A few months later the American made Moviola went on sale in Hollywood and become a huge success but it was sixty five years before a digital equivalent arrived for professionals.

      In the intervening years individuals, and teams imagined tools that could join images together in the blink of an eye. They trialled technology, experimented with the impossible, quit secure jobs for the unknown, and ran out of money. All the while, they tried to ship the best editing product possible. For many years their stories went untold.

      Hoping to solve an amicable dispute with Boris Yamnitsky, who had just acquired Media 100, I found myself at the local library staring at books that talked about 'how to' edit but not how editing came to be. My casual conversation was now a niggling annoyance. I turned to the web and found two names listed in submissions to the U.S Patent Office about electronic editing.

      Adrian Ettlinger and William Warner.

      One had created something called the CBS RAVE, and the other, Avid. They graciously took my phone calls, retold stories of electronic editing’s rich history, and connected me with lesser known individuals who had created the tools we use today. Adrian and Bill not only helped, but they actively encouraged me. Bill made time to talk, linked me to others and poured me coffee in his kitchen.

      Adrian braved the wet streets of Manhattan to tell me, over lunch at the Chiam, about a remarkable period of innovation. My part-time quest changed again when two key contributors passed away. Art Schneider and Jack Calaway both made huge contributions to editing, yet their efforts had gone largely unheralded.

      I decided to record the history of editing before it fades.

      Timeline zigs and zags from people to places, within companies, across continents. People's lives rarely run from A to B.

      Former Xerox scientist David Canfield Smith told me:

      “In any revolution, technological or otherwise, there are interesting characters. In fact, the characters often are the story”.

      This edition

      This edition Timeline: Analog Four is the fourth in a series that is specifically designed for students of film and television and small screens everywhere. It will take you about 4 hours to read.

      I am updating it regularly with new interviews and images - at no extra cost to you. This version has new exclusive interviews with Andrew Soderberg, Duncan Kennedy and Gavin Miller. It also includes excerpts from Hansen Hsu' interview with the QuickTime.

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      Timeline 4

       I’m no door-ist, but if there are too many scenes bookended by doors, the editor’s duty is to kick them down.

      – Joe Walker, editor Blade Runner 2049, 12 Years a Slave

      20: Non-print, Non-linear

      As the world adjusted to the Black Monday stock exchange collapse, Apple announced new products at the 1987 MacWorld Conference & Expo in Boston, Massachusetts.

      Apple debuted Mac System 4.2 and System Software 5.0 which supported the new color Macintosh models, added the MultiFinder (allowing switching between running applications) and background printing with the LaserWriter printer.

      Bill Atkinson’s WildCard, now called HyperCard, drew most interest. Atkinson described HyperCard (above) as:

      '...an attempt to bridge the gap between the priesthood of programmers and the Macintosh mouse clickers.'

      Apple CEO John Sculley went further:

       'In many ways, HyperCard is just as important as the personal computer itself'

      HyperCard was designed to let users combine various media elements called stacks into one. The Wall Street Journal described HyperCard as:

      '...a major development in the industry, changing СКАЧАТЬ