What are some examples of montage movies?

Just like in Citizen Kane, there are several newspaper shots being printed (multi-layer shots where the paper moves between rollers, the paper falls from the end of the printing machine, and a reporter is reading the newspaper), and the title enlarged to the screen tells anything that needs to be told.

In a typical railway montage, the lens includes the engine rushing to the lens, the huge engine wheel moving on the screen, and the long train passing in front of the lens as the destination sign fills the screen.

Compared with the expression method of long-shot movies, montage combines a series of short shots taken in different places, different distances, different angles and different methods to edit into a movie with plots.

With the role of montage, movies enjoy great freedom in time and space, and even can form movie time and space that are inconsistent with real life time and space. Montage can produce "the third action" besides the actor's action and the camera action, thus affecting the rhythm and narrative style of the film. Montage is not only used in movies, but also widely used in derivative fields such as visual arts.

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1895 Newborn movies (such as "Train Entering the Station") have no editing at all. So some people question: Why should we spend money to see the pictures we can see in our daily life? So Edwin Porter used it to create movie clips. David Walker Griffith established a complete system for film art.

But it was Sergei Eisenstein of the Soviet Union who turned this system into a real theory. He put forward the montage theory, and advocated using a series of split shots to create new meanings. For example, in "Battleship of potemkin", Eisenstein repeatedly linked the stone lion cutting with mass riots, which created the implication of proletarian uprising. In addition to the image montage mentioned above, there is also a "sound montage".

Another important theorist of montage is Kuleshov. In order to find out the juxtaposition effect of montage, he made a famous shot editing experiment (Kuleshov experiment), and he discovered "Curry Schouw effect" and "Creating geography".

From1930s to 1950s, montage lenses often combined a large number of short lenses and special optical effects (fade, dissolve, split screen, double exposure and triple exposure) dance and music.