Editing Jump cut (section)

== History ==
[[File:The Tempest (1908).webm|thumb|In [[Percy Stow]]'s 1908 short film ''[[The Tempest (1908 film)|The Tempest]]'', jump cuts are used for some of the [[visual effects]].]]
The effect was used in the early film ''[[The Tempest (1908 film)|The Tempest]]'' (1908) when Ariel magically disappears and reappears. [[Dziga Vertof]]'s ''[[avant-garde]]'' Russian film ''[[Man With a Movie Camera]]'' (1929) is almost entirely composed of jump cuts. Contemporary use of the jump cut largely stems from its appearance in the work of [[Jean-Luc Godard]] (at the suggestion of [[Jean-Pierre Melville]]) and other filmmakers of the [[French New Wave]] of the late 1950s and 1960s. In Godard's ground-breaking ''[[Breathless (1960 film)|Breathless]]'' (1960), for example, he with editor [[Cécile Decugis]] cut together shots of [[Jean Seberg]] riding in a convertible  in such a way that emphasized  the discontinuity between shots to create a deliberate jarring effect. In the clip above the scene abruptly changes perspective, emphasizing a gap in action. Jump cuts have appeared in films like ''[[Snatch (film)|Snatch]]'' by [[Guy Ritchie]], and ''[[Run Lola Run]]'' by [[Tom Tykwer]]. It is frequently used in TV editing, in documentaries produced by [[Discovery Channel]] and [[National Geographic Channel]], for example. It is noticeable in [[Universal Monsters]] films and [[music videos]].