Editing

The lumiere brothers first started making moving pictures when there father retired in 1892. they patented a number of significant processes leading up to their film through the camera and projector. DW Griffiths revolutionised the practise of film editing, Griffiths took a much livelier hand in cutting up his scenes, typically shooting different moments of the unfolding action from a variety of different angles and camera distances whereas Edwin S Porter who had sparingly and cautiously cut a couple of times to break up some of his scenes into discrete shots, or parts of scenes. Edwin S Porter was the creator of The Great Train Robbery in 1903. People already familiar to audiences from dime novels and stage melodrama, and made it an entirely new visual experience. The one reel film, with a running time of twelve minutes, was assembled in twenty separate shots, along with a startling close-up of a bandit firing at the camera. It used as many as ten different indoor and outdoor locations and was groundbreaking in its use of cross cutting in editing to show simultaneous action in different places. No earlier film had created such swift movement or variety of scene.