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montage|ˈmɒntɑːʒ|
[Fr., f. monter to mount.]
1. Cinemat. and Television.
a. The selection and arrangement of separate cinematographic shots as a consecutive whole; the blending (by superimposition) of separate shots to form a single picture; the sequence or picture resulting from such a process.
1929I. Montagu tr. Pudovkin's On Film Technique 179 It is important to gain a clear conception of the activities embraced here by the word Editing. The word used by Pudovkin, the German and French word, is montage. Its only possible English equivalent is editing. 1930Observer 5 Oct. 20/4 Montage, or constructive cutting..is simply the method of building up a film from broken and isolated strips of celluloid. 1936World Film News July 48/3, I recall the fate of montage when it was adopted in England. 1939H. G. Wells Holy Terror iv. ii. 398 Using the cinema in the schools to display the rapid development of the new life of mankind..with a montage in which the Beethovenised head of Rud, the ruler and guide, was displayed in such a manner as to evoke and sustain a world-wide enthusiasm. 1959Punch 10 June 787/2 Very good photography..and montage, or editing..in the jazz-club scene behind the credit titles. 1961Listener 10 Aug. 217/1 The programme opened with a montage of newspapers cascading from the presses. 1974Some Technical Terms & Slang (Granada Television), Montage, a sequence of film images cut together, usually to music.
b. attrib. passing into adj.
1948A. Huxley Ape & Essence (1949) 125 A series of montage shots exhibits, in twenty seconds, the slow, hour-long advance of Loola and Dr. Poole. 1949Here & Now (N.Z.) Oct. 29/3 It doesn't matter if it's [sc. a film is] documentary, expressionist, montage, poetic, or just plain cinematic. 1961K. Reisz Technique Film-Editing (ed. 9) ii. vi. 112 The term montage sequence..refers to the quick impressionistic sequence of disconnected images, usually linked by dissolves, superimpositions or wipes, and used to convey passages of time, changes of place, or any other scenes of transition. 1962Listener 4 Oct. 536/2 An edgy..musical score, perfectly geared to the montage shots of computers, drawing-boards, teleprinters. Ibid. 29 Nov. 909/2 The rows of cells and their inhabitants are arranged like a montage sequence from a Russian silent film. 1963Movie Jan. 5/3 Montage sequence of individual crows attacking each child.
2. The act or process of producing a composite picture by combining several different pictures or pictorial elements so that they blend with or into one another; a picture so produced.
1938A. Cooper Making a Poster 34 Used as ‘montage’ in conjunction with blue skies, or green fields, photographs of human beings appear singularly unattractive. 1938Times 26 Feb. 10/3 The colours, photographs, and lettering which in the ordinary poster are brought into an effect of unity by skilful ‘montage’. 1941A. Huxley Let. 27 May (1969) 467 Use either the portrait of Father Joseph..or else a montage made of the various illustrations in the book. 1958Observer 18 May 16/5 They see, upon the pink and gold jacket [of a book], a montage of representative faces of the period. 1972Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 16 July 10/2 This art [sc. découpage] is not, however, to be confused with either collage or montage, both of which are used as pictures rather than as a decoration for furniture.
3. transf. and fig. (The process of making) a mixture, blend, or medley of various elements; a pastiche; a sequence, miscellany.
1934C. Lambert Music Ho! v. 329 The montage or pastiche of the neo-classicists. 1941B. Schulberg What Makes Sammy Run? iii. 45 It [sc. a night club] was a montage of hot music, drunken laughter, loud wisecracks and hostesses like lollypops in red, green and yellow wrappers. Ibid. ix. 172 It was flashing through my mind like a montage nightmare. 1961Listener 23 Nov. 863/1 It [sc. a poem] is certainly not modernist, if by modernist one thinks of a play of images, a montage in free verse. 1963T. A. Sebeok in J. A. Fishman Readings in Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 19 When describing speech phenomena, many linguists,..continue to employ a mixed nomenclature, drawing for their technical vocabulary now on articulatory, now on acoustic, and sometimes on perceptual phonetics; the resulting montage may show seams, but the total picture makes sense. 1973Guardian 21 Apr. 10/2 She has used a montage of sound, from the throbbing..[of] your own heart beat to various street sounds, even a street musician. |