To add some specific detail to the flashback question:
you may wish to consult Barry Salt's book *Film Style and Technology:
History and Analysis* second edition (London: Starword, 1992). He
discusses flashback on pp. 101-2:
"The earliest known example of a narrated flashback occurs in the Cines
film *La fiable della nonne*, made in the middle of 1908" (101).
In contrast to the narrated flashback, Salt also mentions the
'remembering' flashback. I'm not sure how well the distinction holds, but
here's what Salt says:
"The first film that I know of in which this happens is Vitagraph's
*Napoleon - Man of Destiny* made in 1909" (101).
Salt's observations are based on his viewing of several thousand films
from the early period of filmmaking.
Revisionist film historians may question the search for 'the first time' a
technique is used, in favour of identifying the period when a technique
becomes standard practice.
Warren
Just published: Warren Buckland (ed.), *Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling
in Contemporary Cinema.*
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