Film technique and film acting : the cinema writings of V. I. Pudovkin (1954)

Record Details:

Title:
Film technique and film acting : the cinema writings of V. I. Pudovkin
Date:
1954
Publisher:
London : Vision Press Limited
Volume:
Film technique and film acting : the cinema writings of V. I. Pudovkin
Leaf #:
00065
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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ON FILM^ TECHNIQUE 41 at the former. At this moment a woman looks out of a window on the third floor and calls, " Police ! " The antagonists run off in opposite directions. Now, how would this have been observed ? 1 . The observer looks at the first man. He turns his head. 2. What is he looking at ? The observer turns his glance in the same direction and sees the man entering the gate. The latter stops. 3. How does the first react to the appearance on the scene of the second ? A new turn by the observer ; the first takes out an object and mocks the second. 4. How does the second react ? Another turn ; he clenches his fists and throws himself on his opponent. 5. The observer draws aside to watch how both opponents roll about fighting. 6. A shout from above. The observer raises his head and sees the woman shouting at the window. 7. The observer lowers his head and sees the result of the warning— the antagonists running off in opposite directions. The observer happened to be standing near and saw every detail, saw it clearly, but to do so he had to turn his head, first left, then right, then upwards, whithersoever his attention was attracted by the interest of observation and the sequence of the developing scene. Suppose he had been standing farther away from the action, taking in the two persons and the window on the third floor simultaneously, he would have received only a general