Editing Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (section)

==Post-production==
The show was recorded at [[The Burbank Studios|NBC's Burbank facility]] using two-inch [[quadruplex videotape]]. As computer-controlled [[online editing]] had not been invented at the time, [[post-production]] [[video editing]] of the [[Montage (filmmaking)|montage]] was achieved by the error-prone method of visualizing the recorded track with [[ferrofluid]] and cutting it with a [[razor]] blade or [[guillotine]] cutter and splicing with adhesive tape, in a manner similar to film editing. This had the incidental benefit of ensuring the preservation of the master tape, as a spliced tape [[Lost television broadcast|could not be recycled for further use]]. ''Laugh-In'' editor [[Arthur Schneider]] won an Emmy Award in 1968 for his pioneering use of the "[[jump cut]]" – the unique editing style in which a sudden cut from one shot to another was made without a fade-out.<ref>Art Schneider, ''Jump Cut: Memories of a Pioneer Television Editor'', North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1997 {{ISBN|0786403454}}.</ref>{{page needed|date=November 2017}}

When the series was restored for airing by the Trio Cable Network in 1996, the aforementioned edits became problematic for the editors, as the adhesive used on the source tape had deteriorated during 20+ years of storage, making many of the visual elements at the edit points unusable. This was corrected in digital re-editing by removing the problematic video at the edit point and then slowing down the video image just before the edit point; time-expanding the slowed-down section long enough to allot enough time to seamlessly reinsert the audio portion from the removed portion of video.