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Since 1953  STEENBECK  is manufacturing film editing tables for the motion picture industry.
For more than 60 years Steenbeck has been setting a mark and has been trend setter for quality
and precision in this branche.

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1924

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Edwin S. Porter joined the Vitascope Marketing Company in 1895 where his experience with electrical engineering was called into use.

Whilst at Vitascope, Porter was central in the organisation of the first projected movie show in New York on the 23rd April 1896. He continued to use his engineering skills in the laboratory at Edison’s Manufacturing Company but left to become a freelance projectionist at the Eden Musee Theater in 1898.

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Continuity editing gives the viewer the impression that the action unfolds with spatiotemporal consistency. In most films, logical coherence is achieved by cutting to continuity, which emphasizes smooth transition of time and space. D.W Griffiths.

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George Melies - A trip to the moon
Thomas Edison - the great train robbery

ThomasEdison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb

These pioneers discovered that by cutting pieces of the film together, we could tell stories.

The French inventing team of brothers Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière was responsible for a number of practical improvements in photography and motion pictures. Their work on color photography resulted in the Autochrome process, which remained the preferred method of creating color prints until the 1930s.

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Edison, 1902

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Melies, 1902

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Lumiere Bros, 1895

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No editing
The mere spectacle of moving image on screen was fantastic to audiences.

No Narrative from editing. The story plays out in one shot.

It was believed at this time that film did not have a future because people could not see how it could go any further.