A history of editing
The first public screening of a film was on December 28th 1895 in Paris, this was done by the Lumiere Brothers. After attending a special, private demonstration of the Lumiere Brothers cinematograph, Georges Melies offered the brothers 10,000 franks for the device, but he was refused. After various offers for one such device, he ended up reverse engineering an Animatograph and creating his own device. During the filming of a movie, the camera jammed while filming a truck, when he got the camera to work again it was filming a car. When developing and watching the film afterwards, he noticed that the bus had become a car instantaneously, this created the first jump cut. He then continued to create the fade in and out as well as dissolve cuts. In america, Edwin S Porter began to create narratives within his films. One such film was of a group of firemen. This movie, even though it featured two perspectives, was rather clunky as it would show the action from one perspective, it would then repeat the entirre action from the other perspective. These are called temporal overlaps. D.W. Griffith established most of the editing rules that we know of today. One of his first inventions was known as the cut in. Griffith carried on experimenting and came up with the idea of eyeline matches, shot reverse shots, establishing shots, the 180 degree rule, matches on asction and even the idea of continuity editing. He also invented cross cutting.

In this scene, it uses an establishing shot to show the character 'Big Daddy' ,and his fellow racists, overlooking where Dr Schultz and Django are supposedly sleeping.

 In these shots, you can see an eyeline match of when 'Big Daddy' looks down to the wagon. This gives you a view from the character's perspectives.

 In this scene, it uses both eyeline matches and shot reverse shot. It also demonstrates the 180 degree rule as whenever 'Big Daddy' is shown, he is to the left of the crowd. This establishes where they are all positioned and it shows clearly who is the leader.

In this scene, a match on action is used when Dr Schultz fired and destroys the cart. It does this so that we know exactly where the bullet lands and where he fires at them.