History Main / JumpCut

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* This is what ''LetsPlay/{{Dream}}'' uses to skip most of the boring parts of his videos that would've otherwise been shown, therefore making the video longer.
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oySp75huAp8 the Minecraft Manhunt grand finale]], at the end of the video, [[spoiler: it cuts from Dream shooting the pillars used to heal the dragon, to the dragon at low health, with all the pillars destroyed.]]
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* As a result, hundreds if not thousands of vlogs use it today. Astoundingly irritating to professionals and wannabe professionals. Although Ze Frank's "The Show" actually popularized the use of jump cuts, airing six months before ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15''.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': Subtly used during Matt's concussion to show his consciousnessness slipping in and out.
* ''Series/WandaVision'': The broadcast for the InUniverse ''[=WandaVision=]'' show has abrupt jump cuts to skip over anything that challenges Wanda's sitcom reality.

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes: ''WesternAnimation/HareRemover'' notably has a very obvious DeletedScene where Elmer, happy and celebrating after having caught Bugs... suddenly carries him back to his laboratory with a stern angry look on his face. It almost looks as if Bugs said something to sour his mood...

* ''Film/DoctorInClover'': Just before Miles is sprayed with fire extinguisher foam, the film noticeably skips a second.

* LetsPlay/{{Jacksepticeye}} is increasingly using this technique in his newer videos, normally cutting off a swearing rant right as it starts, implying he raved for a long time and simply edited it out.

* Jump cuts are occasionally the intersection of a StopTrick or MatchCut and SpecialEffectFailure -- in ''Franchise/StarWars'' (''Film/ANewHope''), Luke Skywalker deactivates his lightsaber on-screen aboard the ''Millennium Falcon'' and appears to teleport a little bit. These effects are only convincing (though still often jarring) when everything except what needs to change stays in exactly the same position. Especially notable in ''Star Wars'' because the actual scene changes in the movie are a loving tribute to the {{Wipe}} (to the extent that the film provides that page's image) rather than the (much more common) dissolve or fate to/through black.

** Occurs in several of the Creator/MarxBrothers movies due to either film damage or censorship edicts. For one example, the scene in Connie's bedroom in ''Film/HorseFeathers'' was sliced to ribbons by the Hays Office, and surviving film has several abrupt cuts as a result.

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

* The film most widely credited with popularizing jump cuts is Jean-Luc Godard's ''Film/{{Breathless}}'' (French title: ''A bout de souffle''). 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. 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. It also woke up Hollywood to take new paths. Without this little movie, our cinemas would still run on cuts used in the '50s.

** Frank Cappa's classic ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' contained a scene of these: when Uncle Billy taunts Potter in the bank, and accidentally leaves him his newspaper.

->''"I think my'' neck ''got broken in that last jump cut!"''
-->-- '''Crow''', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''

* The ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} short ''Popeye and the Pirates'' is infamous for having an instantaneous moment of Popeye transitioning out of his drag disguise (complete with GagBoobs of Cannonballs or weights) to cut immediately to the pirate captain resurfacing with said balls in his mouth.

* In silent film ''Film/{{Wings}}'', a jump cut is used to go from a medium shot of Jack to a close-up as he realizes that the pilot he shot down was actually his best friend in a stolen German plane.

Note the scarcity of examples; jump cuts are considered big no-nos by most directors and [[ContinuityEditing avoided by most Hollywood editors]]. Inadvertent examples can often be found in the atrocious B movies picked-apart by [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]], as indicated above.

In an interview, a single lengthy response must often be time compressed. Since the interview subject is often held in a single long shot, the cut must be covered. This can be done by cutting in illustrative footage (called [[BRoll B-Roll]]), cutting to a ReactionShot of the interviewer, or by using a fast dissolve or wipe instead of a hard cut.

* The anime adaptation of ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind]]'' shows ''in-universe'' jump cuts when the BigBad uses his Stand to skip forward and erase time.

* The anime adaptation of ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind]]'' shows ''in-universe'' jump cuts when the BigBad uses his Stand, King Crimson, to skip forward and erase time.

* Jump cuts are shown in the anime adaptation of ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind]]'' when the BigBad uses his Stand, King Crimson, to skip forward and erase time.

* Jump cuts are shown in the anime adaptation of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' when certain villains use their Stand's ability to manipulate time.

* Jump cuts are also used to disorient viewers, often representing paranoia. Films that use them in this way include ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' and ''Film/{{Bug}}''.

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead "Forest of the Dead"]], Donna Noble is transported to a virtual world where she appears to live a normal life on Earth, transitioning through jump cuts to scenes of her falling in love, then getting married, then having children for seven years. Except that the jump cuts literally happened within the space of a few seconds, and false memories have been implanted.