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The 10:01 Rule: How a Digital Stopwatch Accidentally Built the Creator Economy
Inside the stopwatch that turned filler into a business model.
22 hrs ago
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August 2025
How a Stolen Print of Jerry Lewis’s Lost Nazi Clown Film Resurfaced 45 Years Later
The bizarre afterlife of Jerry Lewis’s forbidden Holocaust clown movie and the thief who claims to have kept it alive.
Aug 28
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The Lost City of NLEs: How Lucasfilm Built and Buried EditDroid
From George Lucas’s editing lab to Avid’s rise, a dive into the lost machine that shaped modern post.
Aug 22
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When L Met J: A Love Story in Making Editing Invisible
From Hollywood classics to TikTok, these two have been keeping edits smooth (and audiences hooked) for nearly a century.
Aug 14
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He Just Came Back from the Dead with a video About Death | Vsauce
Who or what exactly is Vsauce? Almost 20 years later, we’re still not sure.
Aug 7
July 2025
The Hidden Hand: Verna Fields, The Editor Who Saved Jaws from Drowning
How editor Verna Fields turned a broken shark movie into the world's first summer blockbuster.
Jul 31
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The Cut That Changed Everything. Screenlife: The Film Genre That Turned Our Screens Into The Scene
A genre born from webcams, refined in lockdown, and now the native language of digital storytelling.
Jul 24
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Hidden Hand: William Castle, the horror gimmick king who offered audiences a $1,000 life‑insurance policy in case they died of fright
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Jul 18
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Video Stack: Ari Fararooy, Tom Brady’s Visual Trickster and Master of Surreal Social Cinema
Filmmaker, visual artist, and looping wizard of the social age.
Jul 10
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The Cut That Changed Everything: Backup, But Not Background: How B-Roll Took Center Stage
And when filmmakers f-up, B-roll was the safety net.
Jul 2
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June 2025
Star Trek, a Basement, and a Broken Spine: The Origin Story of Hollywood’s Favorite Editing Software, Avid
Where Bill Warner saw friction, he gave editors flight
Jun 27
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Every Frame, Every Fix, All at Once: The Silent Power of Invisible VFX
In every frame. Every fix. All at once.
Jun 20
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