a brand of old, noisy, cantankerous upright editing machines which has been in use since the "golden age" of Hollywood and it's still used by veterans who claim it's much faster and more efficient
a mechanical film transport and viewing screen, for looking at picture film, and listening to Optical or Mag sound film It has a built-in amplifier, and volume controls for each track
Moviola editing machines come in two types; upright and flatbed, though when someone refers to a Moviola she usually means an upright. Upright Moviolas are compact machines, about the size of a small refrigerator, that allow for the editing of one image track and one soundtrack simultaneously. Upright Moviolas were replaced as an industry standard by flatbed editing machines, which allow editing of more soundtracks at once, and provide a larger viewing screen.
Company that makes editing beds of the same name.
A trademarked name for a machine with a small rear-projection screen and the capacity to play back several sound tracks. Used in editing and for reviewing portions of the film during production. Also used to synchronize or interlock picture and sound track in editing. Newer devices called "flat-bed viewers" are slowly replacing the upright Moviolas.
A special projection machine (used by film editors) that holds several reels of film simultaneously and can run at variable speeds, backward or forward, and stop at any frame. (Moviola was originally a brand name but now refers only to a type of projection machine.)
A brand name for a common editing machine. The separate film and soundtrack are run vertically from the feeding reels onto the take-up reels in sync with each other. Also called an "upright moviola" to differentiate it from a Moviola Flatbed.
The Moviola was the first machine for motion picture editing when it was invented by Iwan Serrurier in 1924. It allowed editors to study individual shots in their cutting rooms, thus to determine more precisely where the best cut-point might be. The vertically-oriented Moviolas were the standard for film editing in the United States until the 1970s when horizontal flatbed editor systems became more common.
