Pabst, G. W.

Pabst, G. W.

(Georg Wilhelm Pabst) (gā`ôrkh vĭl`hĕlm päpst), 1885–1967, German film director, b. Austria. He used montagemontage
, the art and technique of motion-picture editing in which contrasting shots or sequences are used to effect emotional or intellectual responses. It was developed creatively after 1925 by the Russian Sergei Eisenstein; since that time montage has become an increasingly
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 in such works of social realism as The Joyless Street (1925), Pandora's Box (1929), Westfront 1918 (1930), and The Threepenny Opera (1931).