In Lawrence of Arabia (1962), David Lean took the image of a burning flame and blended it into the rising sun, showing us how ...

In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick compressed human evolution into a single, audacious, and mind-blowing edit.

A system of film editing directed at preserving the illusion of continuity of space and time during an action or conversation, in which consecutive shots bear a logical, causal and functional ...