10.17637/rh.5987596.v1 Amanda Murphy Amanda Murphy John Ellis John Ellis Nick Hall Nick Hall 16mm-editing-picsync.mp4 Royal Holloway, University of London 2018 16mm aaton acmade arriflex BBC documentary eclair eclair npr eclair super 16mm flatbed editor lighting moviola picsync steenbeck television film Screen and Media Culture Media Studies Film, Television and Digital Media not elsewhere classified History and Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 2018-03-27 09:51:56 Media https://royalholloway.figshare.com/articles/media/16mm-editing-picsync_mp4/5987596 <div>This footage was filmed in August 2014 at London Film School in Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom.</div><div><br></div><div>Former BBC film editors Dawn Trotman and Oliver White demonstrated the use of Steenbeck and Acmade PicSync film editing equipment, while breaking down documentary rushes and assembling them into rough sequences.</div><div><br></div><div>This video is part of a series that shows how television film editors organised and assembled raw footage (rushes) using a variety of editing machines and techniques.</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the project</b></div><div>ADAPT (2013-8) is a European Research Council project at Royal Holloway University of London. The project studies the history of technologies in television, focussing on their everyday use in production activities.</div><div><br></div><div>ADAPT examines what technologies were adopted and why; how they worked; and how people worked with them. As well as publishing written accounts, the project carries out 'simulations' that reunite retired equipment with the people who used to use it.</div><div><br></div><div>Participants in these simulations explain how each machine worked and how different machines worked together as an 'array'; how they adapted the machines; and how they worked together as teams within the overall production process.</div><div><br></div><div>www.adaptTVhistory.org.uk</div><div>https://doi.org/10.17637/rh.c.3925603.v1</div><div><br></div>