EditDroid: Rise and Fall

Synopsis

Filmmaker George Lucas, spiritual father of the successful Star Wars series decided to invest 40 million dollars to develop a new editing system. From 1983 to 1986 the revolutionary EditDroid system was developed. The EditDroid was the first nonlinear electronic editing system and used several laser disc players loaded with the raw footage of a film. In the spring of 2005 Tom van Klingeren and Bruce Gray (both editors and instructors on filmmaking at the University of Amsterdam) went to Marin county in the United States in search of the lost history of the EditDroid. They visited the editors who had worked on the system in the 1980's and 90's. They made a return journey to the Skywalker Ranch with the now retired coordinator of the EditDroid project. At the ranch they explored the archives of Lucas' production company in search of the last EditDroid.

Main Cast

Edgar Burcksen

Himself

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Ben Burtt

Himself

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John Sinclair

Self

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Crew	Post-Production Manager	Robert Droog
Production	Producer	Tom van Klingeren
	Executive Producer	Manjit Kaur
Editing	Editor	Tobias Corba Tom van Klingeren Floor Jeuken
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