From Stephens’ book: Watch each of the movies and answer the questions that follow for each. Confirm your participation in this activity by posting a short reflection and reaction in the Drop Box on Canvas.<\/p>\n While the movement took hold in the late nineties (most likely due to the invention of non-linear video editing software such as Final Cut and Premier), the popularity of kinestasis goes back to the 1970s when a little known movie producer got a shot at showing his kinestasis film on prime time television. Chuck Braverman<\/a> produced an exciting masterpiece that traces the history of the United States in four minutes through a fast cut collage of approximately 1,300 images presented in about 4 minutes. It is accompanied by a coordinated drum solo. To put this in perspective, it was cut entirely by hand using a razor to assemble the analog images on to a single film strip. It was first shown in live TV in the early 1970s during an episode of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Television Show<\/a> (a popular show that appeared on Sunday nights on CBS during prime time).<\/p>\n
\nThe Russians borrowed a word to express the ability to record movements in the most complex combinations to place points wherever they wanted to create a fresh perception of the world. This term, which would have so much significance for film, entered the art world primarily through photography… the essential experiment in film montage was conducted by Lev Kuleshov, an influential film instructor… the point of what became known as the Kuleshov effect<\/u><\/a> <\/span><\/strong><\/span>is that meaning of a shot is dependent upon the shots that surround it. The point of montage is that new meanings can be created through the juxtaposition of different shots.<\/p>\nThese experimental movies became to be known as kinestasis film<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/h3>\n
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