When cinema began to gain popularity, it was obvious that by connecting two different images, we assumed their relationship. Films simply document events that happened, only when the enterprising pioneers of early cinema caught on did they begin to manipulate audiences into following a story their way and perceiving it in those exact passages. Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov, a Soviet film director and theorist in the 1920s, taught and helped found the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School. He was an early film theorist and one of the great pioneers of early montage considered by filmmakers around the world and is famous for what became known as Soviet montage. From Kuleshov's point of view, the essence of cinema was montage was the act of placing two things close to each other that contrast with each other. To demonstrate this principle, he created what we now know as the Kuleshov experiment. There is a video of the Kuleshov experiment that is still currently active on the media sharing site YouTube: the experimental video shows shots of the actor Ivan Mozhukhin, interspersed with various significant things, a bowl of soup, a dead child inside a coffin, a lying woman. So there were three shots of an expressionless man looking at the camera and juxtaposed with three things mentioned (soup, baby, and women). The actor doesn't see them, they're most likely not related, and frankly, they could have been filmed in separate locations for all we know. It is the audience who voluntarily makes the connection, assumes they are directly related in some way in their head while knowingly watching, the audience tries to create meaning by combining the two images......center of the card.... .. ry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_montage_theory. [Accessed 15 February 2014].EV KULESHOV | Directors. 2014. LEV KULESHOV | Directors. [ONLINE] Available at: http://directors-sovietcinema.tumblr.com/post/13422306315/lev-kuleshov. [Accessed 15 February 2014].Lev Kuleshov. 2014. Lev Kulesov. [ONLINE] Available at: https://mubi.com/cast_members/22859. [Accessed 15 February 2014].Lev Kuleshov and his 'effect' « Early & Silent Film. 2014. Lev Kuleshov and his 'effect' « Early & Silent Film. [ONLINE] Available at: http://cinetext.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/lev-kuleshov-and-his/. [Accessed 15 February 2014].Introduction to the film - Soviet editing - YouTube. 2014. Introduction to Cinema - Soviet Editing - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsUzglygW_s. [Accessed 15 February 2014].