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What's intriguing about Pudovkin and all those cinema experiments in editing and montage is there strong affinity to hypertext, particularly link node hypertext. Spatial hypertext remains problematic, though not excluded, though perhaps in terms of the visual and the spatial collage is a more appropriate field of connection - though some regard things like cinematic collage as a form of internal montage, a bit like the sequence from Murnau's Sunrise. Anyway, without linking or spatial contiguity there isn't hypertext, there's just writing.
A similar slogan is of course available for hypertext: it is only by the link that one can pass from the page to screen, from the book to hypermedia.
Adrian Miles: Hypertext syntagmas: cinematic narration with links
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