"Battleship Potemkin" and "Ugetsu"

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This paper examines how, released twenty-eight years apart, "Battleship Potemkin" (1925) and "Ugetsu" (1953) make for interesting comparators, especially when focused down to their mother and baby scenes. It looks at how while both scenes succeed in the portrayal and treatment of women and children during times of conflict, making for vital documents of place and time, the two scenes illustrate clear advances in cinematographic technologies and styles of storytelling as filmmakers moved from the silent genre into three-dimensional motion pictures.

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"Released twenty-eight years apart, Battleship Potemkin (1925) and Ugetsu (1953) make for interesting comparators, especially when focused down to their mother and baby scenes. While both scenes succeed in the portrayal and treatment of women and children during times of conflict, making for vital documents of place and time, the two scenes illustrate clear advances in cinematographic technologies and styles of storytelling as filmmakers moved from the silent genre into three-dimensional motion pictures. But mostly, these two scenes best exemplify the respective risks each director was willing to take, particularly as those risks speak to degrees of difficulty."

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