A 1925 silent film by Sergei Eisenstein depicting the 1905 mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin and the subsequent massacre of civilians on the Odessa Steps.
The Odessa Steps sequence is the canonical demonstration of dialectical montage: individual shots of panic, baby carriage, boots, and faces are cut together to generate collective horror and political rage that no single image contains.
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