on 4/12/03 2:24 pm, daniel o'brien at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I am interested in how the thoughts we have can affect our visual
> experience. The famous example of this is the line drawing of the
> duck-rabbit. This *looks different* depending on whether we are thinking of
> this as a duck or as a rabbit. A friend of mine mentioned that Eisenstein
> somewhere talks about this. His example is that of a film of a man's face.
> This can look different dependent on whether it is intercut with pictures of
> food, or children, or war, etc. Has anybody come across this? Is this in
> one of his films? Where might there be references to this?
Actually this is the so-called Kuleshov effect (after the director Lev
Kuleshov) in which the same shot of an actor (Mozzhukhin in this case) was
intercut with a child's coffin, a bowl of soup etc, the theory being that
you would read his expression as sad at the former and hungry at the latter.
This most famous example doesn't actually exist (Kuleshov was so strapped
for cash that they experimented by making films without film). However some
of them do exist and there was a report on their discovery in the Historical
Journal of Radio Film and Television some years ago.
j
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