"If filmic address during a cinema of attractions had begun with the act of display, it had begun to incorporate the actor as seen in close shot, which could be edited into a grammar of film - the shot had become "the unit of editing" and the "basis for ..."
"Scandinavian Silent Film: Victor Sjostrom as Seastrom, Mauritz Stiller, John Brunius, Greta Garbo: Scott Lord Silent Film: Lillian and Dorothy Gish i... : In "Hearts of the World" (1918) D.W. Griffith during a scene in which soldiers are marching, used ..."