“Kuleshov and I made an interesting experiment”*

The word sacrifice on movie screen
from my iphone

“Remember the early days of the cinema, when directors were afraid to cut up the visual movement on the screen, and how Griffith’s introduction of the close-up was misunderstood and by many labelled an unnatural and consequently an inadmissible method. Audiences in those days even cried:
“Where are their legs!”.
—Pudovkin

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect