Montage, Kuleshov, and vidding

I want to shove this chapter of my textbook on Soviet montage at every vidder I've ever met. While I was watching Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929) I kept being struck but by how vid-like the editing was, how he kept using metaphors, matching images like sewing and film editing or the human eye, the camera lens, and window shades opening and closing. But I had no idea how much early Soviet editing WAS vidding.

See, immediately post-Revolution Russia had an epic shortage of raw film stock to shoot new material on, and they were actually frequently using the tail ends of reels from films shot in the era of the czar. But the Kuleshov Workshop didn't have film to be wasting on student projects at all--they were learning and experimenting with editing entirely with clips from pre-existing works. IE, vidding.

(Ugh, traykor, I finally found the exact thing I was looking for the other night--the Mozhukhin Experiment. *facepalm*)

I was about to say, vidders, do yourselves a favor, if you don't know about Soviet Montage and Kuleshov and Eisenstein and Vertov and Pudovkin, look them up, but I just came up with a terrible idea--if I were to go to Vividcon this year, would anyone be interested in a panel on the subject? which has already been done.

Something is off in my time scale

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070810

Two years and three months after Klaus vanishes: Heterodyne heir A is born.

Another year and a month later (which is totally long enough for Lucrezia to have been pregnant with Heterodyne heir B), the Other attacks.

So we're up to three years and four months, and, hmm, I suppose that is within the time scale of "a few years." For some reason I had processed it as "two" and that wasn't jiving.

Except that... then... how long did it take The Other to lay waste? Are we up to four? Five? More years? Does that still fit in "a few years"?