[Frameworks] Articles/essays on the history of flatbed editors (Moviola, Steenbeck, etc)?

[Scott Dorsey]

The Pageant Analyst was by no means the first analysis projector.  The use
of 16mm for motion analysis came about during WWII with the introduction
of gunsight cameras and there were a number of projectors like the hand-cranked
Devry and the Speco which were intended for screening gunsight films one 
frame at a time (and which were all very rough on film).

After the war, the use of high speed photography of machinery and of stop
frame photography for analysis of slower processes like traffic and assembly
line work brought about the Analyst.

But... these machines were not intended for editing work.  They were very
different in application than the flatbed.  While flatbed and upright editing
machines did get used for analysis work, that wasn't their original intent.
--scott