Editing has become an important part of the film industry. People get paid thousands, if they are a good editor, but it wasn’t always that way. It started out with the first filmmakers just filming what amused or interested them and they didn’t stop filming until they got bored or the film ran out, there were no editors and no cuts.
It wasn’t until Edwin Porter, one of Thomas Edison’s employees said ''Cutting separate shots together would make a story'' he was the guy that proved that it could be done. He then went on to edit the first short film in 1903 called Life of American Fireman, it shows a shot where the fire is and a woman and child panicking and then it keeps cutting to the scene where the firemen are getting ready and coming to rescue them, it was to things happening at once. This turned out to be what the film industry needed to take off.
Edwin Ports next film was the great train robbery, which really showed of his skills, which he had learnt from editing, in the film. After this the film industry really took off, it made people realise what could be done. It could get you, in a blink of an eye, through millions of years to the past to the future, slow down and speed up time, startle an audience and amuse them just using the right edit.
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