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"Kuleshov and I made an interesting experiment. We took from some film or other several close-ups of the well-known Russian actor Mosjukhin. [...] We joined these close-ups, which were all similar, with other bits of film in three different combinations. In the first combination the close-up of Mosjukhin was immediately followed by a shot of a plate of soup standing on a table. It was obvious and certain that Mosjukhin was looking at this soup."


V.I. Pudovkin, "On Film Technique," in Film Technique and Film Acting, trans. Ivor Montague (New York: BonanzaBooks, 1949).