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Lev Kuleshov was an early Russian filmmaker who believed that juxtaposing two unrelated images could convey a separate meaning. In his experiment he filmed Mozhukhin, a famous Russian actor, filmed shots of a bowl of soup, a girl, a teddy bear, and a child's coffin. He then cut the shot of the actor into the other shot; each time it was the same shot of the actor. Viewers felt that the bowl of food followed by the shot of the actor conveyed the idea of hunger even though the shot of the man and the shot of the bowl were filmed at different times and places; they felt that the dog being beaten followed by the exact same shot of the man conveyed outrage; and that the shot of the woman and child followed by the shot of the man conveyed sympathy. Kuleshov used the experiment to indicate the usefulness and effectiveness of film editing. |
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Lev Kuleshov was an early Russian filmmaker who believed that juxtaposing two unrelated images could convey a separate meaning. In his experiment he filmed Mozhukhin, a famous Russian actor, filmed shots of a bowl of soup, a girl, a teddy bear, and a child's coffin. He then cut the shot of the actor into the other shot; each time it was the same shot of the actor. Viewers felt that the shots of the actor conveyed different emotions, though each time it was in fact the same shot. Kuleshov used the experiment to indicate the usefulness and effectiveness of film editing. |
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