Hitchcock explains editing & the Kuleshov Effect

The Kuleshov Effect, a montage effect demonstrated by Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov, is explained near the end the video below. There's more on good stuff on editing from the sometimes nicely obscure Hollyn-wood.

Reposting from earlier... as noted on Flippant News, Hitchcock explains the three types of editing:



There are more interviews in the related YouTube video thumbnails, including a Hitchcock interview from 1964 from Monitor (& part 2). Hitchcock interview from 1964 from Monitor (& part 2).

See also a previous post Hitchcock was a drama king which noted Jeff Bays' How to turn your boring movie into a Hitchcock thriller and a newer article Hitchcock Humor ("suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor").