Editorial Droid

colloquial term for an assistant editor in the analog film era, tasked with highly repetitive, mechanical, and labor-intensive duties. Originating from assistants working with massive volumes of footage, the name playfully acknowledges the robotic nature of reconstituting trims, logging, and managing vast libraries of physical film. The term is a badge of honor from a time when the physical management of media was a monumental and often dehumanizing task.