Frank Capra (right) confers with Roy Boulting of the British Army Film Unit on the editing of the propaganda film “Tunisian Victory” in February 1944
The film follows both armies from the planning of Operation Torch and Operation Acrobat (the latter of which was canceled), to the liberation of Tunis. Interspersed in the documentary format are the narrative voices of supposed American and British soldiers recounting their experience in the campaign.
Editing montage in Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
This part documentary and part cinematic art film explores a city in the Soviet Union throughout the 1920’s
A complex and innovative silent film directed by Dziga Vertov. The film depicts ordinary daily life in Russia using complex and innovative camera / edit techniques
The montage sequence above intercuts film editing with more mundane and traditional labor to contrast and compare the two
Film editing in its early days was a trade mostly executed by woman due to their small hands. Vertov uses a visual contrast between sewing and editing to articulate the parallels between the two trades throughout this sequences.
