Yup, those are 16mm film splicers. They are things of beauty, although archaic. But they represent what editing is. It's not about how fast you can type on a keyboard, or how computer savvy you are, it's about understanding how one scene effects the one before it and after it; one shot effects the one before it and after it, and one frame effects the one before it and after it. It's about the context of images/sounds. Once, scissors were used, splicers replaced them, and now a computer bypasses the physical cut, which makes it too easy to not consider each cut. Don't get me wrong - nonlinear editing is great: it's fast, cheap, and offers creative possibilities. But just cause someone knows how to type on a computer doesn't make then a writer.
Short films are like poems, Longer formats are prose. High Noon Productions has experience with all aspects of filmmaking, and in many diverse genres. We especially love travel, sports, music videos, narrative and documentary - kinda covers most filmmaking styles, but that's because regardless of genre, film tells a story: everything is story, even the most experimental piece has some kind of story, perhaps not a conventional one (that's the point when experimenting) but still, something happens, or doesn't happen; it makes the viewer feel something...