During a driving scene, the camera angle remains the same, over the shoulder of the character Patricia in the passenger seat, but the scenery in the background changes abruptly. Jump to 1959 and Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Godard broke the rules with obvious jump cuts in the same sequence. With cuts that appeared seamless, Méliès made characters magically disappear and reappear. In the early 1900s, filmmaker Georges Méliès discovered the jump cut and used it to portray magic tricks.
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