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• Russia -- early Soviet filmmakers emphasized editing above story or acting.

  • Lev Kuleshov (1899-1970) experiemented with neutral actor intercut with different images.
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893-1953) Mother (1926)
  • Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) kineticism -- jagged, intense movement within a frame and in cuts between shots. Battleship Potemkin (1925), October (1928). Briefly worked unsuccessfully in Hollywood and then was condemned for “formalism” by Stalin. Alexan

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