Timeline of editing

It all begin with the first motion cameras as they were invented in 1890s in fact;  1892 Edison and Dickson invented a motion picture camera and a peephole viewing device called the Kinetoscope. They were first shown publicly in 1893 and the following year the first Edison films were exhibited commercially. The film names are Black Maria, a tar-paper shack studio at Edison's West Orange Laboratory. This was first step of not just the filming industry as well as the editing history as directors creators use this man example for years to come to create better more effective  filming 

In 1881, 17-year-old Louis invented a new “dry plate” process of developing film, which boosted his father’s business enough to fuel the opening of a new factory in the Lyons suburbs. By 1894, the Lumières were producing some 15 million plates a year.While the Kinetoscope could only show a motion picture to one individual viewer.This was progression from the original first camera motion the first experiments in the winter of 1894, and by early the following year the brothers had come up with their own device, which they called the Cinématographe. Much smaller and lighter than the Kinetograph, it weighed much lighter  (11 pounds) and operated with the use of a hand-powered crank.


In 1893, Thomas Edison built and organised the first type of movie studio within the united states when finished the studio allowed to actors to preform the film the Black Maria, a tarpaper-covered structure near his laboratories in West Orange, New Jersey, and asked circus, vaudeville, 

By 1908, D W Griffith had entered the  world of moviemaking. He did acting work for the New York City film companies Edison and Biograph and went on to become a director , working with actors like Lionel Barrymore, Mary Pickford and the Gish sisters. He started to develop two-reel works and eventually made the four-reel film Judith of Bethulia. "Four-reel" meant the movie could play for an hour. At Biograph, Griffith was highly innovative with his filmmaking techniques,  cross-cutting, close-ups and fade outs to distinctive effect, cultivating a deeper emotional milieu.

After the 1917 revolution, fresh film stock was in short supply, so filmmakers learnt by experimenting with found footage (shots from old films), looking at what happened if they put them together in different ways. They found that people would respond to a shot differently depending on what images came before and after it. In the “Kuleshov experiment” by theorist Lev Kuleshov, audiences saw a close-up of an actor followed by a shot of a bowl of soup, a coffin, or an attractive woman. They thought the actor was great at looking hungry, sad or lustful – but actually each of his close-ups used exactly the same footage.

This event took place in 1948. This manifesto outlined several ideas that were explained by Cahiers du cinema and François Truffaut at a later stage.He produced a movie called Little Fugitive back in 1953 as he was impressed with the concept of French New Wave. This film clearly shows how the cinema industry in France got International support to carry forward the much-needed move. Modern day filming;Even in an era of incredibly advanced special effects, some filmmakers are still enamoured of the photographic realism in sustained shots. Some director refer back to the traditional camera action and editing techniques hence why some filming techniques may seem predictable or old within a scene of a film its create realism, however, the past 20 or so years has also seen the rise of "digital editing" (also called nonlinear editing), which makes any kind of editing easier. 

In the 21st century, CGI (which stands for computer generated imagery) and the green screen have become exceptionally popular. In this day and age, editors and filmmakers can make their scenes appear as if they are taking place anywhere, with a great array of special effects, without dealing with the practical limitations faced in previous years. Marvel films are "pioneers" of this. They film actors against a green screen or plain green backdrop and then use computer editing to make it look as though scenes are taking place in a war zone or out of space or something similar. They can use CGI to create terrifying or amazing characters without the need for costumes, as well as being more realistic than ever before.