EditDroid: Rise and Fall

An upscaled 1080P version of this documentary can be found here: PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL. With enough subscribers I can be able to post more documentaries about important (forgotten) film and video equipment in history that had an impact on modern cinema For more info or questions: info@ About this documentary: In contrast to many other aspects of film production, film editing has remained the same for a long time. Until around 1985 all films were physically cut and pasted using mechanical editing tables, which had remained largely unchanged since the 1930’s. Filmmaker George Lucas, spiritual father of the successful Star Wars series decided to invest 40 million dollars to develop a new editing system. From 1983 to 1986 the revolutionary EditDroid system was developed. This new system was created to replace the mechanical period in which film editing found itself. The EditDroid was (one of) the first nonlinea