From Latin for "mountain" to French for "mounting" to cinema's most powerful editing technique — montage is literally an act of building upward.
A composite image made by combining several separate pictures, or a technique of film editing in which a series of short shots creates a compressed sequence.
From French montage meaning assembly or mounting, from monter meaning to mount or go up, from Vulgar Latin *montare from Latin mons meaning mountain Key roots: mons (Latin: "mountain").
Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein made montage the defining theory of cinema itself, arguing that meaning emerges from the collision of images rather than from individual shots. His Battleship Potemkin (1925) demonstrated montage so powerfully that it influenced every filmmaker who followed — and was banned by several governments for its revolutionary impact.