Kuleshov experiment

 The kuleshov effect is a film editing effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker 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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