Film Studies Daily Log

Monday, October 13

Students watched three sections of The Cutting Edge, a documentary about film editing. The sections partly concerned editing techniques in the films of D.W. Griffith and of the early Soviet filmmakers, including Eisenstein.

We next read a handout on "Soviet Montage" excerpted from A Short History of the Movies by Gerald Mast, and began to illustrate it with parts of Battleship Potemkin.