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Distinct from, and opposed to, the scene are the various kinds of linear narrative syntagma in which the temporal order of the facts presented is discontinuous. They are the sequences proper. (In cinematographic circles, the term "sequence" used to indicate a purely filmic construction - in contrast to "scene" in the theatre - but, in time, the word has come to designate any sequence of shots having a unity - that is to say, any autonomous segment except the autonomous shot. Therefore, in current usage, "sequence" is equivalent what I would call the autonomous syntagma, of which my table lists seven varieties. (Metz, p. 130.)
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