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montage (cinema)

In film editing, a sequence containing a series of rapidly changing images, often dissolving together or superimposed to convey a visually dramatic effect. Pioneered by D W Griffith in his film The Avenging Conscience (1914), early examples of montage can be seen in Franz Borzage's Seventh Heaven (1927), Sergey Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin (1925), October (1928), and The General Line (1929), and in Abel Gance's powerful and melodramatic La Roue (1922, The Wheel).

Some types of montage:

Montage (film) Musical montage Photomontage (see also photo essay) Visual montage (collage) Video Game Montage

Montage may also refer to:

Montage (band) - A 1960s pop group. Montage (song) - A song about film montages from South Park and Team America: World Police
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