Moviola

He liked to go in early and have coffee with the other editors - the rooms were always dimly lit and I remember the faint smell of the oil from his moviola infused with the scent of freshly brewed coffee.

“Every time I saw her,” he said in an interview, “she was sitting down at a Moviola” — the industry-standard film-editing machine in the era when the job required physically cutting and splicing film.

Great masterpieces were made in the silent era when they didn’t even have a moviola.

“There’s a sense of super-abundance, but there are lots of important films that are not available, including silent films that are impossible to see unless you go to a film archive and watch them on a flatbed moviola.”

Some shots are reiterated in the ultra-grainy form in which they might have been viewed as rushes, or through a Moviola.