I can bring the history of blood splashing on the camera back to 1964. In
Paradzhanov's Ukrainian film _Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors_ tha main
character's father is killed with an axe and the blood runs down the lens
in a subjective shot. It transforms then into silhouetted horses. It is one
of great examples in the creative use of colour during the 1960s.
Bohdan Nebesio
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Bohdan Y. Nebesio, Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison