ABSTRACT
What is the difference between film and television? What is the difference between the big screen and the small screen? As one underemployed film editor asked me, “Which do you prefer working with, silver or rust?” They say this because the original chemical used in film stock was silver iodide that went black when exposed to light, and the first video recordings were made on tape coated with iron oxide, or rust. Interestingly, major movies are now starting to be made entirely on digital cameras with no film stock at all, and systems are being developed so that the output from the digital camera can be fed directly to the editing computer, with no separate recording medium.
