Sergei Eisenstein-From Film Form

One thing that stood out to me that Sergei Eisenstein talked about was, the multiple aspects of film and how those can be related to convey meaning and feeling in film. One thing that I noticed that Arin touched base on was film frame in relation to "frame" of a drawing, and how that is similar to frame-by-frame work in films. I liked when he talked about how Japanese theater makes use of slow tempo, and compares that to nothing we are used to in US filming. He talks about the emphasis they use in particular scenes on "slowing down of all movement." One thing that also stood out to me was when Eisenstein talked about what Japanese most interesting link is in theater. I would have never guessed that it would have been sound. For some reason when I think of Japanese films, I think of animation cartoons. I would have thought to link Japanese theater to sound film etc. I think what Eisenstein was trying to get across was stressing the importance of fundamentals and technique that go along with cinematography.
I also had a difficult time understand what exactly he was trying to get at when talking about MONTAGE?! could someone explain that to me a little better?!
I also enjoyed reading about how silent films reached a new peak as people began to take on to them more and more.