Post by Capo on Jul 23, 2007 0:17:42 GMT
An Unseen Enemy
DW Griffith 1912 USA
Two orphaned sisters are left at home while the maid and her sleazy partner rob the family safe and hold them at gunpoint.
An exploration of tension by means of cutting across two or three places of action and establishing a momentum of rhythm by increasing the frequency of cuts. Again, like The Painted Lady of the same year, Griffith shows a more sophisticated use not only of inter-frame composition (in-frame space, with characters in foreground and background and changing places according to strength of courage), but of intra-frame editing, too, with characters leaving one room at the side of the frame and then cutting to them entering the adjoining room from the opposite side of frame. Stuff that's taken for granted now, obviously, but essential viewing here.
DW Griffith 1912 USA
Two orphaned sisters are left at home while the maid and her sleazy partner rob the family safe and hold them at gunpoint.
An exploration of tension by means of cutting across two or three places of action and establishing a momentum of rhythm by increasing the frequency of cuts. Again, like The Painted Lady of the same year, Griffith shows a more sophisticated use not only of inter-frame composition (in-frame space, with characters in foreground and background and changing places according to strength of courage), but of intra-frame editing, too, with characters leaving one room at the side of the frame and then cutting to them entering the adjoining room from the opposite side of frame. Stuff that's taken for granted now, obviously, but essential viewing here.