A report on an experimental study of the Kuleshov effect can be found in Calvin Pryluck, Charles Teddlie, and Richard Sands, "Meaning in Film/Video: Order, Time, and Ambiguity," JOURNAL OF BROADCASTING 26(Summer, 1982)3:685-696 The headline version is that the phenomenon is more complex and complicated than usually reported. Connected images do mostly modify each other, contingent on ambiguity of the images, length of time on the screen, and salience of the images. There are very complex interactions among at least these variables that cannot be easily explained. cal ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cal Pryluck, Radio-Television-Film, Temple University, Philadelphia <[log in to unmask]> <PRYLUCK@TEMPLEVM>