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 #:
00092
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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68 PUDOVKIN worked out by an American director in the film Daddy ? The separate pieces were assembled on the screen in the following sequence : 1 . The street with cars in movement : a pedestrian crosses the street with his back to the camera ; a passing motor-car hides him from view. 2. Very short flash : the face of the startled chauffeur as he steps on the brake. 3. Equally short flash : the face of the victim, his mouth open in a scream. 4. Taken from above, from the chauffeur's seat : legs, glimpsed near the revolving wheels. 5. The sliding, braked wheels of the car. 6. The corpse by the stationary car. The separate pieces are cut together in short, very sharp rhythm. In order to represent the accident on the screen, the director dissected analytically the whole abundant scene, unbroken in actual development, into component parts, into elements, and selected from them — sparingly — only the six essential. And these not only prove sufficient, but render exhaustively the whole poignancy of the event represented. In the work of the mathematician there follows after dissection into elements, after " differentiation," a combination of the discovered separate elements to a whole — the so-called " integration." In the work of the film director the process of analysis, the dissection into elements, forms equally only a point of departure, which has to be followed by