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Established the classic principles of Hollywood editing style
Braulio 2022-05-29 21:38:48
The most outstanding achievement of this film lies in its editing: the editing process has abandoned the "fade" technique, and more importantly, it has changed the old method of adding a new scene after the meaning of a scene is completely finished. In the scene processing of a stage play in the 19th century, the content of the next scene can only be started after the logical end of the content of one scene. For example, the biggest tragedy of Mélière is that he has never jumped out of this stage thinking mode. But Porter believes that a group of pictures with no head and no tail can be edited and combined together to express a single and complete meaning. It is neither like a scene by Mélière, nor is it like a discontinuous, unedited scene by Lumière. This understanding contains the most basic principles of film narrative language. Porter's exploration established the classic principles of Hollywood editing style.
