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An autonomous segment that maintains a continuous narrative time constitutes the scene. This is where, for example, a conversation may occur and though the film cuts amongst various images the continuity of the conversation maintains the narrative integrity of the sequence. As Metz points out this is the form that dominated early film making where a single event would be narrated in a continuous narrative time.
A scene is therefore marked by its temporal and spatial integrity, though this ought not to be confused with the autonomous shot where such integrity is established and maintained by a continuous shot, rather than being produced by a sequence of shots. Such sequences are common in film, though equally common are those sequences where the presentation of the narrative, the time of the story, is discontinuous.
Parts of Moulthrop's Victory Garden appear to operate in this manner, for instance the default reading sequences from the nodes "Missing," "Tender," and "Blackout."
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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