Comments on: Editing in days of yore http://kino-eye.com/2006/03/09/flatbed/ "Everybody who cares for his art, seeks the essence of his own technique." -- Dziga Vertov (1922) Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:49:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mathias Allary http://kino-eye.com/2006/03/09/flatbed/comment-page-1/#comment-209287 Mathias Allary Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:27:48 +0000 http://kino-eye.com/2006/03/09/flatbed/#comment-209287 I absolutely agree with you, concerning your attitude towards editing-tables. You explain, that Steenbeck in Holland has produced them since 1953. This information is not correct. The company was settled in Hamburg / Germany and produced these editing tables for several decades. But they made two mistakes: 1. The tables were built too good, so when you owned one, it worked without problems and the endure even today, so it was not necessary to buy a new one. 2. They missed the non-linear editing era so the company went bancrupt some 10 years before. The Holland-Company is just the company of a service-man who bought the rest of the parts and the name from the owners. The tables are relicts, but I think it is still important for young filmmakers to know about that way of editing. Mathias I absolutely agree with you, concerning your attitude towards editing-tables. You explain, that Steenbeck in Holland has produced them since 1953. This information is not correct. The company was settled in Hamburg / Germany and produced these editing tables for several decades. But they made two mistakes: 1. The tables were built too good, so when you owned one, it worked without problems and the endure even today, so it was not necessary to buy a new one. 2. They missed the non-linear editing era so the company went bancrupt some 10 years before. The Holland-Company is just the company of a service-man who bought the rest of the parts and the name from the owners.

The tables are relicts, but I think it is still important for young filmmakers to know about that way of editing.

Mathias

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