These effects are only convincing (though still often jarring) when everything except what needs to change stays in exactly the same position.

Jump cuts are occasionally the intersection of a Stop Trick or Match Cut and Special Effect Failure - in Star Wars ( A New Hope), Luke Skywalker deactivates his lightsaber on-screen aboard the Millennium Falcon and appears to teleport a little bit.

(Several other episodes had jump cuts, but this was a particularly notable instance.) Mike and the bots immediately decided that he had teleported in.

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode Girl in Gold Boots has such a jump cut, getting rid of a bit where a character enters a scene.

Frank Cappa's classic It's a Wonderful Life contained a scene of these: when Uncle Billy taunts Potter in the bank, and accidentally leaves him his newspaper.

In order not to cut around even more the publishers often decide in favour of the jump-cutty result in material.

This is, in fact, sadly common with older movies which were never digitalized, and have several bad (cut/torn/dirty/burned) pieces of film which have to be cut out in order to make the film watchable again.

Without this little movie, our cinemas would still run on cuts used in the '50s. It also woke up Hollywood to take new paths. Although one of the points of the film is to do everything in pretty much the opposite way it would be done in Hollywood continuity, which includes this. The jump cuts weren't used to any specific artistic purpose, however they were done mainly to get rid of scenes that made the film too long. The film most widely credited with popularizing jump cuts is Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (French title: A bout de souffle).Films that use them in this way include GoodFellas and Bug. Jump cuts are also used to disorient viewers, often representing paranoia.Jump cuts were used on purpose in the film Capote during the hanging scene.Happens in the second episode of The Flowers of Evil when Kasuga runs away from Nakamura after she reveals she knows he stole Saeki's gym uniform.In Excel Saga, during a episode centralized on baseball, we jump from the start of the game to the ninth inning after one scene transition, to which Nabeshin responds 'Holy Jumpcuts!'.Nothing happened during that strange stray shot of the scenery. And there was also one bizarre scene, when they showed Thrust, suddenly jump cut to a totally random and pointless shot of the same background (but no Thrust), then back to the same image as before, with Thrust magically reappearing and continuing his thing. Transformers Armada used this, but not intentionally - the animation was simply rushed, so often they used the same background, even if the 'camera' switched focus to another character.The anime adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind shows in-universe jump cuts when the Big Bad uses his Stand to skip forward and erase time.Trapeze, by the same director, uses jump cuts a lot as part of general extreme weirdness.At some point along the way, the doll turns to look after her during a cut. For instance, in the first arc, there's a scene where the 'camera' stays on the floor with a doll in the foreground, as a character walking down a corridor slowly jumps into the distance.

Mononoke uses these frequently, coupled with intentionally Deranged Animation and Mind Screw to cement its status as a surreal Psychological Horror series.

Perfect Blue: Occurs at a faster pace as Mima loses her grip on reality.

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