One of the landmarks of Soviet silent cinema -- and of film in general. Sergei Eisenstein's innovative editing techniques in this masterpiece have influenced directors from mainstream Hollywood to the avant-garde. The film recreates and celebrates an uprising that occurred in Odessa in 1905, during the first stages of the Russian Revolution. Sailors, enraged at their poor treatment -- one of the most memorable sequences shows the maggot-ridden meat meant for their dinner -- mutiny and sail to Odessa. The revolutionary fervor spreads, and Cossacks loyal to the Czar violently attempt to squelch the explosion. But the people will win out... Special scene: the Odessa Steps sequence, a masterfully edited, emotionally powerful episode. For those who have seen de Palma's "The Untouchables", this is the direct inspiration for the scene in Grand Central Station.

Montage in by Attaway at http://www.slip.net/~attaway/

Definition: "In film language 'montage' means the uniting of shots of seemingly unrelated objects in the same film sequence so that they take on a new relationship to each other in the mind of the viewer."¹

The classical example of montage technique is the film Potemkin by Eisenstein (1927) - however, we are surrounded by montage: nearly every MTV video is a montage, as are most TV commercials. 

Montage segments are typically short: Eisenstein used shots from 1/2 second to about 14 seconds in Potemkin - the majority of his shots were about 2 1/2 seconds long. 

Single Time Stream: In Potemkin, the famous sequence on the Odessa Steps shows the same event from multiple points of view as it occurs. There is only one time stream. Televised football and baseball games routinely use this "real time" montage technique - cutting rapidly from reaction shots of the crowd, to the pitcher's windup, to the batter, to the manager, back to the crowd. 

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Define these nouns:    montage, segment, technique

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The summary above uses the adjective "innovative" to describe Eisenstein's techniques. Give an example of another artist or musician who is innovative, and explain why.

The writer (Attaway above) uses the adjectives "seemingly unrelated" to describe what sort of objects are in a montage.  What does he mean to say?
 

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Look over the eight images, and in a list briefly describe what image is "captured" by that view of the camera.

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Using the review on the top (and your dictionary), summarize in your own words what the Battleship Potemkin is about.