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writer is at a loss to describe. Very little of movie montage is cited for its efficiency. In fact those two notices by Abel and Kauf practically total the praise a year of movie montage commands, and not because of its rarity. On the contrary, it is the movie with no montage at all that is rare.
Any movie depicting any part of the life hectic failing to employ whirling champagne bottles, a panorama of blazing night club neon signs in Times Square, a cacaphony of ermine-wrapped and top-hatted revelers, blaring and whining clarinets, tooting taxi horns and shrieking brakes, milling crowds and scantypantied choruses of shapely females, apparently does not count. The din-din-night-life transition is as standard as noble deceptions and sacrifices, a running gag or a six-shooter that never has to be reloaded. But we repeat, to what extent the artistry or esthetics of montage intensify furtherance of main pursuits, or anything else that montage endeavors to accentuate, is hard to figure out.
If we remember correctly the original montage came from Germany, novel when new, and exciting, if a jumble of action flashes that never pause long enough to register deeper than the retina, can be called exciting; but that novelty quickly wore off. With rare exceptions the montage viewed today is trite at its best, annoying even, irritating in fact, if, as in some of the better movies, it is used to induce or provoke sympathy, or heighten suspense.
None of the movies we reviewed at length, with the exception of It Happened One Night and Lost Horizon, employed any montage, and in One Night the clattering, whirring presses and headlines could hardly be called montage as generally conceived. Newspapers and radio were the only mediums through which the father could hope to contact those in flight.
In Lost Horizon, none of the major menace, war and the elements, "the blindness, the madness, the unintelligence of leadership," were in evidence in the montage picturing Colman's struggle to regain Shangrila.
In those final stanzas, headlines, newsboys shouting, people shouting, "Conway has disappeared!" and clubmen discussing his disappearance contained none
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