TCF 112 1st Edition Lecture 3 Outline of Last Lecture I. Silent Comedy and the Birth of the Hollywood Studio Eraa. D. W. Griffithi. Key Contributionsb. Triangle Companyi. Inceii. Sennetc. Charlie Chaplini. Comedy Methodd. Buster Keatoni. Comedy Methode. Legacy of Silent FilmsOutline of Current Lecture I. Editing and Early Soviet Cinemaa. Historical Overviewb. Editingi. Continuity editingii. Jump cutsiii. Computer-aided editingc. Overview of Soviet Cinemad. Lev Kuleshovi. Kuleshov Experimentii. Lessons of Kuleshov Experimente. Sergei Eisensteini. Eisenstein Film Clipsii. Eisenstein Aestheticf. Dziga VertovCurrent LectureEditing and Early Soviet Cinema:Historical Overview:1895-1918 Early cinema and emergence of continuity editThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.1919-1929 Soviet Montage1930-1959 Studio Era1960-1989 Modern disjunctive editing1990-present Editing in the digital ageEditing (Examples in Music Videos):- Continuity editingo For storytellingo Examples- Beastie Boys-Sabotage Dr. Dre-Forget About Dre- Jump cutso For aesthetic endso Examples- The White Stripes-The Hardest Buton The Thermals-Pillar of Salt- Computer Aided Editingo Examples- The Chemical Brothers-Star Guitar Kylie Monique-Come into my WorldOverview of Soviet Cinema:Emerged after the Russian Revolution in 19171908-1917 Russian CinemaThe Soviet Union nationalized the film industry in 1919 and was one of the first nations to institute state film schools.V. Lenin saw film as an ideal vehicle for propagandaFilm was NOT viewed as primarily for entertainment, but for education and spreading messages to the illiterate people. Pudovkin-“The foundation of film art is editing”Lev Kuleshov:Filmmaker, teacher, theoristKuleshov workshops-experimented with editing on pieces of film his students and he already had.Intolerance (1916) became the “textbook” for him and his students.- Kuleshov Experiment:- Hitchcock’s pure cinema was an updated version of Kuleshov’s Experimento Kuleshov Effect:o Shots have 2 meanings Shot by self (intraframe) Shot in relation to other shots (interframe)o Creative Geography-real world spaces can be manipulated in film to produce convincing fictional worldso Diegesis-fictional world- Lessons of Kuleshov Experiment:o Edits serve narrative function Glance-object cut, flashbacks, flash forwardo Edits Produce intellectual responses  Associative edits and contrast cutso Edits produce emotional responses Changing tempo of edits Relational editing can cause visceral response to film (anxiety, rhythmic)Sergei Eisenstein:Master of Soviet montageTransformed Marxist theory into editing technique- Influences-o Lev Kuleshov’s work (practice)o Japanese calligraphy (formal)o Dialectical method-film image A + film image B = Idea C (political)- Eisenstein Film Clips:o Strike (1925)o Batleship Potemkin (1925)o October (1927)- Eisenstein’s Aesthetic:o Revolutionary-(anti-bourgeois) No individual hero Hero=the collective; the proletariat  No stars or professional actors No studio shootingo Compositional Motif Example-vertical line used to represent strength, stability, and powero Expanded Time at crucial moments (psychologically emotional time is longer than narrative time) Repeated action Flurry of details Increased number and frequency of shotso Collision of oppositesDziga Vertov:Kino-Pravda-“film truth” film series after the Russian RevolutionObjective-film life as it is; as if the camera were absentRejected fictional film narrativesFilms were a type of agit-prop (agitation and