Vsevold Pudovkin was a Russian-Soviet director, actor and screenwriter. He was one of the great innovators, taught to be the father of Soviet cinema Lev Kuleshov. Called up to fight in World War I while studying engineering in Moscow. After escaping from German captivity, at the age of 25 he returned to Russia and began studying chemistry and physics, but after seeing DW Griffith's film “Intolerance” he was inspired to pursue cinema. He applied to the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography in 1919. However in 1919 cinema was still a very young art form and the ideas and techniques that are common today were just being developed. Pudovkin's most influential role in world cinema was his theories on editing. He recorded that editing is an aspect of the cinematic art form, completely different than other art forms. He believed that editing together the shots of a film was unlike anything else in written works, music, painting or photography. He also noted that editing is not simply a way of bringing together the shots that make up a scene, but rather a method of manipulating the audience by guiding the viewer's thoughts and emotional response. It could create visual metaphors and a way to suggest a relationship between two seemingly unrelated shots, sounding similar to the Lev Kuleshov effect. He even went so far as to say that the emotional content of a scene comes more from proper editing technique than from the actor's performance. Editing is not simply a method of joining numerous scenes or pieces, but it is a method that controls the "psychological guidance" of the viewer." Vsevolod Pudovkin described shots as the premises that can be used to construct a scene; built connections rather than conflicts in a...... middle of paper ......://nofilmschool.com/2013/10/pudovkin-montage-5-editing-techniques/. [Accessed February 15, 2014].Mother 1926 - YouTube. 2014. Mother 1926 - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_xhnMBWr6Q. [Accessed February 15, 2014]. Pudovkin's 5 Editing Techniques @ Evan E. Richards. 2014. Pudovkin's 5 Editing Techniques @ Evan E. Richards. [ONLINE] Available at: http://evanerichards.com/2013/3042. [Accessed February 15, 2014].http://biblio3.url.edu.gt/Publi/Libros/2013/Cinematic-Storytelling/04.pdf [Accessed February 16, 2014].The Five Principles of Editing | Adam Westbrook // ideas on storytelling and digital publishing. 2014. The Five Principles of Editing | Adam Westbrook // ideas on storytelling and digital publishing. [ONLINE] Available at: http://adamwestbrook.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/the-five-principles-of-editing/. [Accessed 16 February 2014