Film Editing | Magpie | Children's TV | 1977

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  • čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
  • Thames TV's educational programmes 'Finding out' takes a peek behind the scenes of 'Magpie' In this clip Mick Robertson explains how film shot on location is edited.
    First shown: 13/06/1977
    If you would like to license a clip from this video please e mail:
    archive@fremantlemedia.com
    Quote: VT13973

Komentáře • 166

  • @joshu6394
    @joshu6394 Před 3 lety +587

    All these can be done with just a few clicks in Adobe Premiere while sipping coffee. Massive respect to the film editors that made the timeless films we're enjoying now.

    • @l21n18
      @l21n18 Před 2 lety +9

      Imagine those people who hd to make the transition though

    • @gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086
      @gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086 Před 2 lety +29

      now we have all kind of tools but films are decreasing their quality

    • @maximf.5537
      @maximf.5537 Před 2 lety +9

      But why is it less interesting, film looks better... Digital always looks cheap to me

    • @Da.Liar-Pig
      @Da.Liar-Pig Před rokem +4

      Especially there is no watermark back in the old days of film editing

    • @print-master
      @print-master Před rokem

      and it shows its done with a few clicks on adobe premiere

  • @ResakuMaatsuda
    @ResakuMaatsuda Před 3 lety +246

    It's amazing how they used to edit films back in the 70s.

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber Před 3 lety +6

      And this was cutting edge in the day (and I *DO NOT* mean cutting the edge of the film) - if anybody mistakes that for a silly pun

    • @print-master
      @print-master Před rokem

      @@Keithbarber all the way to the mid 90's

    • @nathanventura548
      @nathanventura548 Před 10 měsíci

      Well into the 2000s

    • @emoshiro
      @emoshiro Před 2 měsíci +1

      You physically edit yourself, you can touch your media, literally feel it. I bet it is beautiful once you know what you're doing. I love this so much!

  • @qzcancel
    @qzcancel Před 4 lety +522

    I’ll never complain about editing iMovie videos again

  • @LeonithOneil
    @LeonithOneil Před 4 lety +165

    Back in the days when we need a whole room to edit videos

    • @blitzen5038
      @blitzen5038 Před 3 lety +27

      now video editors just work from their beds lol

    • @HistoryandReviews
      @HistoryandReviews Před rokem +2

      @@blitzen5038 cell phones or mac minis

    • @emoshiro
      @emoshiro Před 2 měsíci

      You physically edit yourself, you can touch your media, literally feel it. I bet it is beautiful once you know what you're doing. I love this so much!

  • @emoshiro
    @emoshiro Před 2 měsíci +7

    You physically edit yourself, you can touch your media, literally feel it. I bet it is beautiful once you know what you're doing. I love this so much!

  • @BBT609
    @BBT609 Před 4 lety +142

    Now THATS why the director clap board was made!

  • @EditScribe
    @EditScribe Před 11 měsíci +11

    This video made me increase in editing passion. Thank god i hope i finally found the origin of ‘editing’

  • @givemethevalium
    @givemethevalium Před 7 lety +110

    Fascinating; actually makes my head throb to see how hard it used to be. Lacing the tape up in that telecine machine looks so complicatedly ridiculous. I wonder what year this sort of thing was finally ditched for cassette tapes?

    • @ChristopherSobieniak
      @ChristopherSobieniak Před 7 lety +8

      Givemethevalium Givemethevalium Some stations kept these going into the 80's.

    • @Gameboy-Unboxings
      @Gameboy-Unboxings Před rokem +1

      I said that video editor must have been a genius. He made it look so easy.

    • @nathanventura548
      @nathanventura548 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Tape still requires editing too in a process that's very similar.

  • @jaylendavis4840
    @jaylendavis4840 Před 2 lety +33

    I been wondering how they did this since I was like 15 I watched this whole video with a smile on my face. Dope!

    • @Gameboy-Unboxings
      @Gameboy-Unboxings Před rokem

      Yeah, I just decided to look it up because I make videos on here. I'm just a novice but once I started learning how to cut & trim parts of videos, it really made me wonder how they used to do it.

  • @booshkoosh7994
    @booshkoosh7994 Před 6 měsíci +4

    That's an art that should never be abandoned. Very insightful indeed. Thank you!

  • @filmsforallnations
    @filmsforallnations Před 3 lety +13

    I used to love Magpie, when I was a child. Magpie was ITV's answer to Blue Peter. Both shows were amazing and educational to young audiences. Editing a television programmes used to be so intricate (unlike today on digital computers).

  • @Zygecks
    @Zygecks Před 3 lety +41

    and here we are, paying for a premiere pro subscription and editing

    • @blitzen5038
      @blitzen5038 Před 3 lety +6

      you pay for it !?

    • @ThrowbackGames_
      @ThrowbackGames_ Před 3 lety +1

      @@blitzen5038 yes, premiere costs money. It’s way worth it rather than editing like this fucking video, lmao

    • @blitzen5038
      @blitzen5038 Před 3 lety +2

      @@ThrowbackGames_ have you heard of pirating software? I was joking because Adobe products are expensive and a lot of people pirate them, I don't doubt people use the program lol

    • @ThrowbackGames_
      @ThrowbackGames_ Před 3 lety

      @@blitzen5038 I’m not really comfortable with pirating, plus, I have the one where you suits pay a couple hundred dollars so you don’t have to pay every month

    • @yk_zeus
      @yk_zeus Před 2 lety

      @@blitzen5038 i also have pirated it🙂

  • @Snugglepaw
    @Snugglepaw Před 4 lety +70

    Imagine you mess up, now you have to go back and cut out one or two frames, tape it back up, and run it back the telecine

    • @joehiggs100
      @joehiggs100 Před 4 lety +14

      Been there, done that and worse. I haven't seen examples of dubbing charts on the internet from the rock n roll dubbing suites they had then. Could be works of art.

    • @AndrewDoom
      @AndrewDoom Před 3 lety +22

      And i used to think Final Cut Pro was a pain...we live in very luxurious times

    • @T0ra99
      @T0ra99 Před 3 lety +6

      @@AndrewDoom No I think it's very justified, with tools getting better expectations of quality also went up, so in a way the challenge factor never changed, only became more accessible.

    • @AndrewDoom
      @AndrewDoom Před 3 lety +1

      @@T0ra99 true. That’s a good way of looking at it!

    • @arfansthename
      @arfansthename Před 2 lety

      Well, if you're very experienced, that's highly unlikely.

  • @cjkalandek996
    @cjkalandek996 Před 3 lety +27

    Shooting on film may be better for sure, but no one can disagree that editing digitally is easier.

    • @l21n18
      @l21n18 Před 2 lety +8

      You can do both

    • @foco5657
      @foco5657 Před rokem +1

      even tape editing is easier

  • @MadameSomnambule
    @MadameSomnambule Před 3 lety +11

    So that explains the markings I'd see on old films once in a while. They're for syncing audio.

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak Před 7 lety +19

    I still have one of those 16mm tape splicers shown here!

  • @andyvan5692
    @andyvan5692 Před 2 lety +4

    wow, that interlude brought me back to my teens, as in Australia, all the abc (Australian broadcasting commission) programs, esp. the british content had this, and I am now 41! beautiful program, as no one holds film anymore, it's all digital magnetic signals, so what a refreshing experience.

  • @B1PFilms
    @B1PFilms Před 3 lety +8

    wow...
    I guess I got it easy...
    I'll never taking video editing for granted ever again.

  • @onyx050
    @onyx050 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Much respect to the editors andirectors and everyone involved in film woww

  • @GreatGizmo74
    @GreatGizmo74 Před rokem +26

    As someone that was born in 2008, I really want to do this. Just analogue editing seems really cool to me, all the really cool techonogly and you had hole rooms and teams to produces a pieces of media. Now some twat in their bedroom can just made a video on a device about as small as a pocket book. I just wish there is somewhere in the UK that still has all this old equipment and still editing like this day.

    • @BodoqueHavelange6483
      @BodoqueHavelange6483 Před 9 měsíci

      Hey you poser kid you don't know what are you saying. You couldn't survive one mouth in a analog world

  • @fraserkatie
    @fraserkatie Před 7 lety +17

    Another interesting clip of how they edit film and sound! Thanks!

  • @ianhand5006
    @ianhand5006 Před 7 lety +3

    That brought back some happy childhood memories!

  • @DavidBrocekArt
    @DavidBrocekArt Před rokem +2

    It's so funny how he just slapped that ducktape on the tape haha. Love this.

  • @jaflischannel
    @jaflischannel Před 3 lety +7

    Fun fact: the editor edited a video of Thames while watching himself edit, probably, idk

  • @jhjhjhjhjhjhify
    @jhjhjhjhjhjhify Před 2 lety +7

    Funny how some directors pine for the days where everything was shot on film, and yet no editor ever complains about editing on computers.

  • @Stalking-jw6ip
    @Stalking-jw6ip Před 3 lety +4

    And here i'm editing videos on my phone in rhe comfort of my couch

  • @joehiggs100
    @joehiggs100 Před 4 lety +7

    Ah,. the good old days! ''The man who cuts the film''.

  • @janvincentrodriguez257
    @janvincentrodriguez257 Před 3 lety +9

    imagine editing clips like this just to post in Instragram stories lol

  • @myhmbrand
    @myhmbrand Před 15 dny

    All respect to these guys🤙🏿

  • @singlelit0
    @singlelit0 Před 11 měsíci +1

    So precise! Great video

  • @emoshiro
    @emoshiro Před 2 měsíci +1

    Omg this looks so amazing and interesting. He was physically cutting the footage, not press C to cut. I love this so much

  • @PlanetImo
    @PlanetImo Před 2 lety

    Woweeeee! That was hard work compared to these days!!! I feel so lucky.

  • @shawaizobaid591
    @shawaizobaid591 Před rokem

    The fact that this video was prolly edited the same way amazes me

  • @Pizzalaser
    @Pizzalaser Před 2 měsíci

    I wanna go back and see the analogs! #analog

  • @ranashahbaz4504
    @ranashahbaz4504 Před 4 měsíci

    i still used this method for editing

  • @wayneqjr
    @wayneqjr Před rokem

    And here I was using two VCRs one plugged into the other to make my edits back in the early 90s.

  • @pnnytx
    @pnnytx Před 3 lety +5

    Unlike Premiere, this is way more stable.

  • @asphaltandtacos
    @asphaltandtacos Před 9 měsíci +1

    I would love to shoot on film, edit in Resolve and print back to film. Titles and transitions would be done in Resolve with effects done in camera.

  • @thanhnamle6725
    @thanhnamle6725 Před 2 lety +1

    I want to ask the news reporters with 16mm film cameras

  • @PedroManX
    @PedroManX Před rokem

    Amazing.

  • @人生は痛み
    @人生は痛み Před 11 měsíci

    imagine someone making a fancam with these machines

  • @321riah_
    @321riah_ Před rokem

    thank you ive always wondered this

  • @northernplacecorporation

    The film editor seen here must've taped the film (separate picture and sound rolls of 16mm film) together on both sides.

  • @gamer-yc6zd
    @gamer-yc6zd Před 2 lety

    my first video editing was restoring vhs tapes and converting old vhs to dvd

  • @JittFrom305
    @JittFrom305 Před rokem

    AMAZING

  • @realDannyBoi111
    @realDannyBoi111 Před rokem

    Very Informational

  • @torpedoboy4
    @torpedoboy4 Před 3 lety +1

    This guy sounds like Al Stewart “Time Passages”

  • @chanderprakash3159
    @chanderprakash3159 Před 3 lety

    Can Someone Please Tell Me That How At That Time Film Countdown Leaders (Both Head & Tails) Were Prepared & Added To The Film ?

  • @alvarohigino
    @alvarohigino Před 2 lety +1

    How they put letters in the film? Just writting in the piece of film?!

    • @Mark_TDD
      @Mark_TDD Před rokem

      Usually they would print the text onto transparent material (glass or plastic), then film it. After, it would be put into an optical printer, where the video and the text would be printed together onto one piece of film.

  • @ksteiger
    @ksteiger Před rokem +1

    Why do the Brits have such a fascination with the words "bits"? Everything is bits.

    • @ihateducks4500
      @ihateducks4500 Před 10 měsíci

      @@thomsboys77 yeah, couldn't they just keep calling it "British America". It just had such a nice ring to it

  • @n3rdm4n36
    @n3rdm4n36 Před 7 měsíci +1

    This is where the term Directors CUT came from 😂

  • @ManjunathCV
    @ManjunathCV Před 7 měsíci

    Audio and Video till happens today in a digital age and it's still confusing.

  • @Noe-ev8ng
    @Noe-ev8ng Před 2 měsíci

    I was reading a lightnovel where the main lead regressed on the 80's so I got curious how they edit a movie before digital era 😅😅😅

  • @DD-fs9xt
    @DD-fs9xt Před rokem +2

    0:16 who else thought he had a giant nose for a second ☠️

  • @kyizarthin9522
    @kyizarthin9522 Před 10 měsíci +1

    2:35 This is so manual of cut and trim😅

  • @arfansthename
    @arfansthename Před 2 lety

    A telecine may look and sound sophisticated, but in reality it's just a television camera facing the lens of a run-of-the-mill film projector.

  • @ellis_playz4907
    @ellis_playz4907 Před 2 lety +1

    Now you can you just get your "hand sized computer" and press a few buttons and have a fully edited video

  • @nomad4k
    @nomad4k Před rokem +2

    Wow. The amount of work it took them.. I open up my FCPX, drag my media in there and boom 💥!!! Infinite possibilities right there on my computer.

  • @nokrimchimarak1246
    @nokrimchimarak1246 Před 4 lety +3

    thats some complicated editing software

  • @accel1231
    @accel1231 Před rokem

    This was a PHYSICAL edit from hardware

  • @garyhunt8067
    @garyhunt8067 Před 2 lety

    Interesting this

  • @josaicmosaic
    @josaicmosaic Před 6 měsíci

    its just really weird to think that people used to just cut film and drew on it with pencils

  • @alibehrouzi761
    @alibehrouzi761 Před 3 lety

    That was interesting

  • @revemb4653
    @revemb4653 Před 3 lety

    Giving me some Black ops 1 vibes real hard now

  • @RohulAmin-gu8kf
    @RohulAmin-gu8kf Před rokem

    I came here when I learnt that microprocessors were invented in 1971. My question was: How did they made films before 1971? (I know invention of microprocessor is not for film)

  • @gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086

    how is the film already colored?

  • @NetvoTV
    @NetvoTV Před 2 lety

    The film was shaking while he is making it, how is that be any accurate?

  • @ShaanBlog
    @ShaanBlog Před 4 lety +1

    Very tough to edit a flim

  • @raitshots
    @raitshots Před 9 měsíci

    👍😎💯🤙

  • @brett_fitz4569
    @brett_fitz4569 Před 3 lety +2

    i think i’ll stick to premier pro

  • @bobcat420
    @bobcat420 Před 2 měsíci

    Oh that’s what all those numbers are lol

  • @NastiMarvasti
    @NastiMarvasti Před 2 lety +2

    A lot less frame fucking (as we editors call it) back in those days. Nowadays, you have to try not to over-tweak your content.

  • @johnjackson7045
    @johnjackson7045 Před 3 lety +1

    when i make films i like to use digital.i use digital in a different way.when i make a film the same m=amount of hardwork they did back then applies to the project im working on.i know because i visited film sets when i was younger and saw how many times they had to take retake choosed different places for the camera the cinematography.all f that took long time for a 2- 3 minute clip.and the same thing applies to my filmaking.i use digital but still have the old values

  • @zampiangel3871
    @zampiangel3871 Před rokem

    Now I use DA VINCI 18

  • @aliabbass8049
    @aliabbass8049 Před rokem

    Who’s here in 2023 watching this because of Oppenheimer

  • @wilddrum78
    @wilddrum78 Před 2 lety

    Actually the guy sounds like Davy Jones from The Monkees

  • @JandyElijahYT
    @JandyElijahYT Před 7 měsíci

    old machine something idk name to Laptop timeline

  • @LeatherShoes-ef1pb
    @LeatherShoes-ef1pb Před 2 měsíci

    I can see why they don't do this anymore considering the ease of digital editing. That said, this method seems more..."artistic" to me. Like, Quentin Tarantino once said that when you watch movies, you're not watching motion, you're watching an *illusion* of motion created by 24 still pictures per second. So to see all those still images being literally handled and modified by human hands--as opposed to computer code being handled by software and algorithms--it just strikes me as being closer to "art."

  • @bluu6452
    @bluu6452 Před rokem

    the lil men behind my screen when i edit

  • @johanexxxx
    @johanexxxx Před 3 lety

    Tf is the pilot saying?

  • @codewarrior145
    @codewarrior145 Před rokem

    This is the mechanical way to edit videos it's the old before computers.

  • @45asunder1
    @45asunder1 Před 7 lety +1

    the bad bits....

  • @Ramysunray
    @Ramysunray Před 2 lety

    Me sitting here with my latest or version and complain its not fast enough f@#k me ,

  • @M_Sonata
    @M_Sonata Před 4 měsíci

    Female narrator sounds like Florence Pugh.

  • @davutsakalli
    @davutsakalli Před 2 lety

    He should have used hand gloves.

  • @EddyGameVlogBoy
    @EddyGameVlogBoy Před 2 lety +7

    To be honest, editing back then looked a lot more fun to do. Nowadays, it's just too easy and boring.

  • @parsaakbari2381
    @parsaakbari2381 Před 7 měsíci

    Not informative! But voice of the narrator was rather lovely!

  • @adarshpk59
    @adarshpk59 Před 2 měsíci

    Ctr + Z 🤔