Kuleshov demonstrates how an edit can manipulate the viewer into believing the actor has different emotional reactions. He uses the same neutral expression of an actor inter cut first with some food, then a beautiful woman, then a dead child. The actor footage is identical in the three sequences, but the audience thinks the actor is either hungry, in love or very sad depending on which scene in placed in between. Hitchcock's example is just as compelling. Hitchock is shown first with a neutral expression, then smiling. If this is inter cut with a mother and her
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