JUMP CUT

During a 40 year career Art Schneider won 4 Emmy’s from 7 nominations, and in his memoires gives a first hand account of how videotape editing moved from razor blades to computers and non-linear systems.

It’s a tale we all know, long hours in dark rooms trying to push the equipment to achieve more than it was designed to do…

Except Art did it first.

From his pioneering work as the ‘Jump Cut’ master on countless Bob Hope specials to his fast cutting on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In, Art was Jack Callaway’s hero, and when you read the ingenious solutions he came up with to insolvable problems time and again you will understand how he became the first video editor to be featured in Who’s Who…>