>May I take the liberty of expanding this discussion just a bit and ask if >anyone can come up with the EARLIEST examples of slow motion in narrative >cinema? In _A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema_, Robert Ray traces it >back to _Zero For Conduct_ (1933), but I think we might also give Bunuel credit >for a bit of slo mo in _Un Chien andalou_. Anything else? We should probably look at the Russians--especially Dziga Vertov whose Man With a Movie Camera (1929) has many memorable instances of "camera tricks," including slow motion. He probably used slo mo in his earlier Kino-Pravda stuff, but I do not have the references. Gene Walz Winnipeg, Manitoba [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]