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1895 Lumiere Brothers invented Cinematography

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1901 - Edwin S. Porter showed the film didnt have to be one long still. He used footage to tell a different story to what the footage was originally meant to show.

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1908 - D.W Griffiths used the first continuity cut in his film For Love of God Griffiths realised that characters emotions could be portrayed in a different way by using different camera angles and the pace of editing was changed. Griffiths was given credit for the discovery of the close-up.

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The Birth of a Nation was a short film which was based on a 1915 novel called the Clansman. The film features camera techniques such as long shots, still shots, iris effects, cross cutting and many more.

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Eisenstein demonstrated this with his, 1925 Battleship Potemkin- Montage. Montages were created by a Russian director called Lev Kuleshov.

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Analogue editing was used before computer editing. Film was cut and pasted into a specific order then put through a machine called a Moviola or a KE.M. Things like Final Cut, or Adobe are now used as its a much faster and easier way of editing. 1971 The first truly non-linear edit was introduced. The CMX 600.

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1980s Various approximations of non-linear editing systems were built. 1983 Ediflex introduced on an universal series. (Offline non-linear editing) Used on 80% of filmed network programs.

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1991 Non-linear editing was formalized with the publication of Michael Rubins: A Guide to Digital Film and Video Editing.

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1993- The Avid Media Composer was used for commercial editing, however since 1989 the Avid Composer has become the dominant non-linear editing and finishing software.