The Life of an American Fireman was the first edited film, it was directed in 1903 by Edwin Porter who was the first director to inter-cut two shots together. Porter had a shot of a burning building and then a shot of a fireman to show that the fireman was on his way to the burning building. "The life of an American Fireman" example.
D. W Griffis was a pioneering film maker in the 1910s, he directed films such as: The Birth of a nation, Orphans of the storm, Griffis edited his films with Jimmy Edward smith. Griffis analysed editing and realised it was a style and really looked into what different shots to use like close ups he also mastered cross cutting.
Lev Kuleshov edited together a short film with a bowl of soup, a coffin with a crying woman and a child with a toy and between each shot he had a mans face. People thought that his face was changing each time like when he looked at he soup he was hungry, when he looked at the coffin he looked sad and when he looked ta the child he looked happy. When in fact his face did not change it was the same though out. This shows what editing can do to manipulate what the audience sees.
In the 1940/50s the woman did the editing they had no input into the movie, it was a formulaic process like sewing that's why the thought woman would be good at the job.
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