Kuleshov effect

Vsevolod Pudovkin (who later claimed to have been the co-creator of the experiment) described in 1929 how the audience "raved about the acting ... the heavy pensiveness of his mood over the forgotten soup, were touched and moved by the deep sorrow with which he looked on the dead child, and noted the lust with which he observed the woman.

The raw materials of such an art work need not be original, but are prefabricated elements which can be disassembled and reassembled by the artist into new juxtapositions.

These films included The Battleship Potemkin, October, Mother, The End of St. Petersburg, and The Man with a Movie Camera.

Alfred Hitchcock refers to the effect in his conversations with François Truffaut, using actor James Stewart as the example.

[3][4] In the famous "Definition of Happiness" interview which was part of the CBC Telescope program, Hitchcock also explained in detail many types of editing to Fletcher Markle.

[5] The final form, which he calls "pure editing", is explained visually using the Kuleshov effect.

[6] Dean Mobbs et al. did a within-subject fMRI study in 2006 and found an effect for negative, positive, or neutral valence.

Example clip of a modern Kuleshov sequence, where footage of a man's face is intercut with three different shots