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film editing (montage) effect by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation

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Example clip of a modern Kuleshov sequence, where footage of a man's face is intercut with three different shots The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian film-maker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.

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