Film Editing | Magpie | Children's TV | 1977

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  • 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

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  • @joshu6394
    @joshu6394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +623

    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 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Imagine those people who hd to make the transition though

    • @gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086
      @gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

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

    • @maximf.5537
      @maximf.5537 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

    • @Da.Liar-Pig
      @Da.Liar-Pig ปีที่แล้ว +5

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

    • @print-master
      @print-master ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @qzcancel
    @qzcancel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +539

    I’ll never complain about editing iMovie videos again

    • @EJCharles
      @EJCharles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I use iMovie

    • @itsmantu4097
      @itsmantu4097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i use filmora 😁

    • @w.e.s.
      @w.e.s. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I movie is for kids

    • @Samuel_Brinkley
      @Samuel_Brinkley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I use PowerDirector

    • @badrider2618
      @badrider2618 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

  • @ResakuMaatsuda
    @ResakuMaatsuda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +253

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

    • @Keithbarber
      @Keithbarber 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @nathanventura548
      @nathanventura548 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well into the 2000s

    • @realmynameshiro
      @realmynameshiro 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +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!

  • @LeonithOneil
    @LeonithOneil 4 ปีที่แล้ว +173

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

    • @blitzen5038
      @blitzen5038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      now video editors just work from their beds lol

    • @HistoryandReviews
      @HistoryandReviews ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@blitzen5038 cell phones or mac minis

    • @realmynameshiro
      @realmynameshiro 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +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!

  • @givemethevalium
    @givemethevalium 7 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    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 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

    • @Gameboy-Unboxings
      @Gameboy-Unboxings ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @nathanventura548
      @nathanventura548 ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @BBT609
    @BBT609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Now THATS why the director clap board was made!

    • @spectremodtrain5936
      @spectremodtrain5936 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's still used. You have the same video/audio syncing trick nowadays

    • @parsaakbari2381
      @parsaakbari2381 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Idiot

  • @jaylendavis4840
    @jaylendavis4840 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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 ปีที่แล้ว

      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 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

  • @Zygecks
    @Zygecks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

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

    • @blitzen5038
      @blitzen5038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      you pay for it !?

    • @ThrowbackGames_
      @ThrowbackGames_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @blitzen5038
      @blitzen5038 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@blitzen5038 i also have pirated it🙂

  • @Snugglepaw
    @Snugglepaw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      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 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

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

    • @T0ra99
      @T0ra99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @arfansthename
      @arfansthename 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @realmynameshiro
    @realmynameshiro 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    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!

  • @EditScribe
    @EditScribe ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @cjkalandek996
    @cjkalandek996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

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

    • @l21n18
      @l21n18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You can do both

    • @foco5657
      @foco5657 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      even tape editing is easier

  • @andyvan5692
    @andyvan5692 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @GreatGizmo74
    @GreatGizmo74 ปีที่แล้ว +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 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @janvincentrodriguez257
    @janvincentrodriguez257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

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

  • @MadameSomnambule
    @MadameSomnambule 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

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

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

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

  • @ianhand5006
    @ianhand5006 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    That brought back some happy childhood memories!

  • @DavidBrocekArt
    @DavidBrocekArt ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @jaflischannel
    @jaflischannel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @filmsforallnations
    @filmsforallnations 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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).

  • @jhjhjhjhjhjhify
    @jhjhjhjhjhjhify 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @B1PFilms
    @B1PFilms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @joehiggs100
    @joehiggs100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @Stalking-jw6ip
    @Stalking-jw6ip 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @Spelonker
    @Spelonker 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I used to think editing on miniDV tape was a pain. I'll never do this. Although, I will say, it's worth having the mentality of an old school editor; using one third of what you filmed is a much bigger ratio than what the average digital editor will do today.

  • @DD-fs9xt
    @DD-fs9xt ปีที่แล้ว +3

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

  • @Pizzalaser
    @Pizzalaser 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wanna go back and see the analogs! #analog

  • @PlanetImo
    @PlanetImo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @fraserkatie
    @fraserkatie 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

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

  • @NastiMarvasti
    @NastiMarvasti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

  • @miniroo612
    @miniroo612 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is where the term Directors CUT came from 😂

  • @realmynameshiro
    @realmynameshiro 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

    • @Alpha8713
      @Alpha8713 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The sync block is a Pic-Sync. The flatbed is a Steenbeck.

  • @nokrimchimarak1246
    @nokrimchimarak1246 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    thats some complicated editing software

  • @myhmbrand
    @myhmbrand หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    All respect to these guys🤙🏿

  • @ksteiger
    @ksteiger ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @ihateducks4500
      @ihateducks4500 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @JittFrom305
    @JittFrom305 ปีที่แล้ว

    AMAZING

  • @realDannyBoi111
    @realDannyBoi111 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very Informational

  • @asphaltandtacos
    @asphaltandtacos 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +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.

  • @ellis_playz4907
    @ellis_playz4907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @shawaizobaid591
    @shawaizobaid591 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @antoniusyoutube
    @antoniusyoutube 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you for this. It's truly astounding how films were put together all those years and decades ago.

  • @torpedoboy4
    @torpedoboy4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This guy sounds like Al Stewart “Time Passages”

  • @thanhnamle6725
    @thanhnamle6725 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

  • @onyx050
    @onyx050 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @JandyElijahYT
    @JandyElijahYT 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    old machine something idk name to Laptop timeline

  • @Noe-ev8ng
    @Noe-ev8ng 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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 😅😅😅

  • @brett_fitz4569
    @brett_fitz4569 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i think i’ll stick to premier pro

  • @ranashahbaz4504
    @ranashahbaz4504 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i still used this method for editing

  • @thelegendRohulAmin
    @thelegendRohulAmin ปีที่แล้ว

    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)

  • @parsaakbari2381
    @parsaakbari2381 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @kyizarthin9522
    @kyizarthin9522 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

    • @shlimex
      @shlimex 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      🤣

  • @M_Sonata
    @M_Sonata 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Female narrator sounds like Florence Pugh.

  • @chanderprakash3159
    @chanderprakash3159 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @singlelit0
    @singlelit0 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So precise! Great video

  • @ShaanBlog
    @ShaanBlog 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very tough to edit a flim

  • @LeatherShoes-ef1pb
    @LeatherShoes-ef1pb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    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."

    • @Blackjack-2028
      @Blackjack-2028 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Closer to bring pretentious

  • @adarshpk59
    @adarshpk59 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ctr + Z 🤔

  • @zampiangel3871
    @zampiangel3871 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now I use DA VINCI 18

  • @arfansthename
    @arfansthename 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    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.

  • @nomad4k
    @nomad4k 2 ปีที่แล้ว +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.

    • @print-master
      @print-master ปีที่แล้ว

      until your computer crashes

  • @aliabbass8049
    @aliabbass8049 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who’s here in 2023 watching this because of Oppenheimer

  • @wilddrum78
    @wilddrum78 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually the guy sounds like Davy Jones from The Monkees

  • @accel1231
    @accel1231 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a PHYSICAL edit from hardware

  • @wayneqjr
    @wayneqjr ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @NetvoTV
    @NetvoTV 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @raitshots
    @raitshots 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    👍😎💯🤙

  • @northernplacecorporation
    @northernplacecorporation ปีที่แล้ว

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

    • @Alpha8713
      @Alpha8713 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Magnetic film only gets tape on the base (non-oxide) side; otherwise, you would hear the splices go through the reader. The cuts are also normally made diagnoally (which is why the splicer has both types of blades) on the mag film, for the same reason. Not sure why he used clear tape for the sound splice. Normally, it is white and stickier than the clear tape used for picture.

    • @northernplacecorporation
      @northernplacecorporation 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Alpha8713 Oh... right.

  • @josaicmosaic
    @josaicmosaic 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @codewarrior145
    @codewarrior145 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @alvarohigino
    @alvarohigino 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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

    • @Mark_TDD
      @Mark_TDD ปีที่แล้ว

      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.

  • @revemb4653
    @revemb4653 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Giving me some Black ops 1 vibes real hard now

  • @ManjunathCV
    @ManjunathCV 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @Ramysunray
    @Ramysunray 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @PedroManX
    @PedroManX ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing.

  • @gamer-yc6zd
    @gamer-yc6zd 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @321riah_
    @321riah_ ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you ive always wondered this

  • @garyhunt8067
    @garyhunt8067 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting this

  • @alibehrouzi761
    @alibehrouzi761 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That was interesting

  • @人生は痛み
    @人生は痛み ปีที่แล้ว

    imagine someone making a fancam with these machines

  • @davutsakalli
    @davutsakalli 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He should have used hand gloves.

  • @gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086
    @gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    how is the film already colored?

    • @arfansthename
      @arfansthename 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Color film has been around since the 50s. (I'm talking Kodak film, not Technicolor)

    • @gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086
      @gersoneduardojimenezbarret9086 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@arfansthename I mean.... How do they put colour to the film

  • @johanexxxx
    @johanexxxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tf is the pilot saying?

  • @EddyGameVlogBoy
    @EddyGameVlogBoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @45asunder1
    @45asunder1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the bad bits....

  • @bobcat420
    @bobcat420 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh that’s what all those numbers are lol

  • @johnjackson7045
    @johnjackson7045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +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

  • @bluu6452
    @bluu6452 ปีที่แล้ว

    the lil men behind my screen when i edit

  • @pnnytx
    @pnnytx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Unlike Premiere, this is way more stable.