. . . check the commentary halfway through the video I posted

What a cool Prez! Love this.

Put two separate, unrelated images together on a split screen (or sutured together, in sequence, in a movie) and you create the effect that there is a relationship between the two, when of course there really isn't.

We do have the Russians to thank for this time-honored cinematic technique!

It is interesting how easy it would be to use it in clearly deceptive ways. I would love to have a same time (if it really was the same time) wide screen angle where you really see both.

. . . not understanding the need to dismiss what folks were actually commenting on

There was even another frosty meeting between the two earlier . . .

you'll note Christiane Amanpour suprised at the split screen feed from French television, and suggesting (as the crowd laughs at the effect) that the conjunction is not necessarily reflective of the situation on the ground.

She's discussing what a rousing reception Obama has gotten everywhere he has appeared on this occasion, while Putin has been received coldly by the crowds. Then suddenly, she says:

Oh, there they are together! Are they?

The anchorwoman responds: No, that's a split screen, Christiane.

Amanpour: But they've made it ...

Anchorwoman: ... I know! But everybody here is reacting!

....apparently the split screen feed was broadcast on video monitors to the crowd, and there was a crowd reaction as well as a reaction by both Obama and Putin. So believe it or not, the awkward reactions of the two were probably real. Sort of like if you've ever gone to a ballgame and suddenly see yourself broadcast up on the Jumbotron.

Whoever was the official video feed operator was quite the sly one.

It only confirms to me that the Kuleshov effect is alive and well.

I'm laffing so hard I have tears in my eyes!



That is the single best moment of the Obama Era! LOL!

that 4:42 CNN clip on the bottom really made me happy and proud and cry all at the same time. That music they play when he walks in accompanied by the children just started it all for me... and the cheering, and Christiane Amanpour's commentary was excellent. She had to impress upon the other CNN woman (don't know who it was) that this really *was* a big deal, and that Obama really *is* being welcomed warmly. The other woman was minimizing it.

He doesn't put up with much shit and neither do I. Of course I'm not in the same league but in my world I'm mighty too