Editing on a Moviola

Tim Amyx edits a movie for New Horizons pictures, January 1990. Showing how the Moviola works - talking to girlfriend in Mexico. Filmed by Julie Dole, assistant editor

[timarnold]

That was awesome. After watching this, I feel spoiled with digital editing.

[jxnisnotfunny]

i'm fascinated by all this older technology folks had to use before avid came out. really makes me appreciate the amount of effort people put into films in the past

[scotthancock]

Thank you for posting this so I could show my kids how I spent about 15 years in the 70's - 80's. Brings back so many memories...

[marvguitar]

This is incredible! Would be amazing to see more videos of you cutting on Moviolas. Always wanted to see this. Thanks for posting.

[seancollett]

The way things are going in the software world I am starting to miss this style of editing.

[sutv]

This was awesome. I'm reading Paul Hirsch's book. "Long Ago in a cutting room far far away" It's brilliant. He talks so much about the moive ola I had to look it up. This video put all the pieces together. Thank You.

[Alpha]

This is great! I have made some 16mm films that I have cut on a Steenbeck (the most recent of which was in 2014), but I have never used a Moviola. It looks like fun.

[demoniboxwork]

Oh my God! It always seemed to me that editing in editing programs is very difficult. Dear God bless computer technology!
Thank you for the video.

[dariuserhunmwunsee]

so, this is how 35mm film audio is synchronized with the visual.

[bobanalog]

The Movieola is the same art design pic that's on the album cover of 10cc The Original Soundtrack. All these years, i'd always wondered what that was.

[moonpics]

Yes, thanks for that. I've edited on a flatbed Steenbeck before but have never seen a Moviola in action. Wow, must have taken forever to cut a picture together.

[Lion_McLionhead]

The days when B movies were edited in Venice beach garages, on 2nd hand equipment.

[WhippedFood]

I am reading In The Blink Of An Eye and it's crazy how fast things have changed

[Screenfunfacts]

I'll never whine again about minor missing functionalities missing on avid or adobe.

[GeorgeStreicherMusic]

We truly don't realize how good we have it these days...

[denizzagra]

As an 18 year old person, I wish I could edit on a moviola!

[writeride]

Nothing like a delayed reply, eh? Walter was definitely on the Moviola. Richie Marks happened to be standing right there telling me what he was doing, and that he also loved Moviolas. Somebody Dee Dee who was his mentor. Was very familiar with those monster flatbeds, helped drag them up narrow stairs at Zoetrope, weighed a ton. Yes, Walter was working on Apocalypse.

[JohnWesleyDowney]

George Lucas edited his first feature film for Warner Brothers, THX 1138 on a machine, a movieola, like the one in this video. Steven Spielberg's editor for JAWS, Verna Fields, edited the entire movie on a movieola and won an Oscar for her editing. Wow.

[Almahra]

thinking about all breathtaking movies

[JDRyan-nvnf]

I worked on the tail end of the film age… loved it