DWG was using the flashback a few years before that, and is likely to
have claimed to have invented it; but it's equally likely that that's
been disproved. (What he called the 'cutback', something else he
claims to have invented iirc, was something else -- parallel editing I
think.)
On 1/21/09, Martin Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Venkiteswaran, D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation (1915) has great use of the
> flashback, although I doubt that it is the first film to do so.
>
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