The Early History of Editing

What do you notice about early filmmakers in regards to editing? What similarities did you notice between early filmmakers and the mobile films that your classmates have made?

Early filmmakers had one scene that never moved. These often consisted of a medium shot which did not pan even if the subject went out of frame. After some innovation to the editing process, scenes were put together to form a story, but each scenes were very long compared to modern day movies. The early filmmakers' films and my classmates' films are similar in the sense that they both had very shaky footage. For the old filmmakers, this was due to the quality of the camera, but for us, it was because we refused to put the phone down for our mobile video to be steady.