Just the above. I edit videos with Final Cut Pro and I just can’t imagine how stuff like this was done before digital avenues.
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They literally sliced it. With a razor blade or scissors, in a splicing tool. Then taped it back together.
To do things like a dissolve (where scene A fades out and scene B fades in), you would project scene A with decreasing light and scene B with increasing light onto a new strip of film.
Audio was done separately on its own big piece of tape using similar processes, then the finished audio and video tapes would be combined in the final stages.
I worked in a movie theater in 2001 and spliced movies together. They came in rolls and we had a machine that would cut a frame or two off the ends and splice the two rolls into one. Then roll it on a reel to attach the next roll.
They did the same back then for shows.
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