montage, the art and technique of motion-picture editing in which contrasting shots or sequences are used to effect emotional or intellectual responses. It was developed creatively after 1925 by the Russian Sergei Eisenstein; since that time montage has become an increasingly complex and inventive way of extending the imaginative possibilities of film art. In still photography a composite picture, made by combining several prints, or parts of prints, and then rephotographing them as a whole, is often called a montage or a photomontage.

montage(French; “mounting”)

Pictorial technique in which cut-out illustrations, or fragments of them, are arranged together and mounted on a support, producing a composite picture made from several different pictures. It differs from collage in using only ready-made images chosen for their subject or message. The technique is widely used in advertising. Photomontage uses photographs only. In motion pictures, montage is the sequential assembling of separate pieces of thematically related film by the director, film editor, and visual and sound technicians, who cut and fit each part with the others to produce visual juxtapositions and complex audio patterns.

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Montage (from the French for "putting together") most often refers to collage including photomontage and sound collage.

Montage is a technique in film editing that can refer to:

• a montage sequence, a segment which uses rapid editing, special effects and music to present compressed narrative information
• Soviet montage theory in the 1920s

Montage may also refer to:

• Montage (TV series), Documentary television series from 1960s and 1970s
• Montage (software), computer software for screenwriting
• Montage, an album by Japanese Shibuya-Kei artist Kahimi Karie
• "Montage," a song from the original soundtrack of _World_Police#Music. A slightly different version had appeared before in episode 603 of South Park.
• Montage, a Brazilian electro-punk band.