Chris Still in Editing Bay, WILX-TV - February, 1979 - Shot on Film
This was how one did off-line video editing in 1979. There weren't the advantages one has with digital editing. It didn't even allow mistakes to be corrected, as one could with film, without dropping a generation in video quality. So, usually one had to keep it pretty simple. And since the stories were usually shown only twice (evening and late night newscasts, or late night and morning newscasts) the reporters (who often did their own editing) kept a pretty basic approach to putting their stories together in order to meet the deadline.
For what it's worth, I shot the video Chris is seen editing in the photo. We weren't back at the station more than half an hour after we finished shooting the story (something to do with downtown Jackson) when Chris was at this point in editing the story for the noon news. It was about 9:26 AM.
Camera: Vivitar 400 S/L. Lens: Vivitar 28mm. Film: Eastman 5247 motion picture negative, ASA 100 (without the number 85 filter).
Chris Still in Editing Bay, WILX-TV - February, 1979 - Shot on Film
This was how one did off-line video editing in 1979. There weren't the advantages one has with digital editing. It didn't even allow mistakes to be corrected, as one could with film, without dropping a generation in video quality. So, usually one had to keep it pretty simple. And since the stories were usually shown only twice (evening and late night newscasts, or late night and morning newscasts) the reporters (who often did their own editing) kept a pretty basic approach to putting their stories together in order to meet the deadline.
For what it's worth, I shot the video Chris is seen editing in the photo. We weren't back at the station more than half an hour after we finished shooting the story (something to do with downtown Jackson) when Chris was at this point in editing the story for the noon news. It was about 9:26 AM.
Camera: Vivitar 400 S/L. Lens: Vivitar 28mm. Film: Eastman 5247 motion picture negative, ASA 100 (without the number 85 filter).