Students of film may be familiar with the classic 1920s Kuleshov experiment where audiences viewed Russian star Moszhukin reacting to a bowl of soup, a child in a coffin, and finally, to a beautiful and tempting seductress. The audiences raved about his ability to show hunger, then sorrow, and finally, smoldering lust. They didn’t realize that they were viewing the same close-up of Moszhukin in each instance. There was no difference in his acting; the difference was only in the clip t