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Citizen Kane, 1941. Orson Welles.
This breakfast sequence is mentioned by Metz, and compresses many years of marriage into one brief sequence. The flash pans (the rapid camera movement punctuating time changes) is a common device and one of the many ways film has developed ways of signalling change. These changes do not mean anything intrinsically - the same device is used to indicate continuity of time and change of locale for instance - but it is significant that cinema has a vocabulary of marks for indicating edits. There is also a very traditional use of point of view shots throughout this sequence.
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