In Lawrence of Arabia (1962), David Lean took the image of a burning flame and blended it into the rising sun, showing us how a simple cut could create an iconic visual transition. In a single cut, he ...

In 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick compressed human evolution into a single, audacious, and mind-blowing edit. This single cut, squeezed over millions of years, with a wordless ...