Her Name Was Moviola: Time moves at speed

I have told everyone i’ve ever met who operated in the Film age how much I do not envy them one bit. I am a kid who knows how to respect my elders - and the work that went in to making a movie back in the day is unfathomable to me. Unfathomable.

This film made it fathomable.

Step by step, Iconic Film Editor Walter Murch and his former assistant Dan Farrell take us through the process that built the films we hold on high pedestals today.

I’m so glad someone had the good sense and forethought, as we speed into a new age, to make one final record of how the process of film editing used to work. We need examples of the skill, if only to appreciate the Golden age of Cinema even more — but also to motivate us all to make good use of these modern tools ourselves, and understand the innovation we have come to take for granted.

The amount of work and money needed to make a film before Digital is nothing to scoff at - and digital really did open doors for every single person on earth to be able to access this storytelling device that is Cinema and the cinematic language. We cannot underestimate the massive effect it’s having on our culture.

From Lucas’ EditDroid to the modern Capcut, as we move forward, films like this remind us what we’re leaving behind, why we left it behind, and invite us to think about the effect this could be having on how we tell stories now.