Quote:
"Another film rich in hesitation/lapse is Caroline Leaf's The Street [...] Leaf often uses the hesitation as cross dissolve, from neighbors' bodies to building; or as fly-throughs before the age of computer, dissolving paint in the path of children running down the street."
-- Norman Klein

Source:
Klein, Norman. The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects. New York: New Press, 2004. (p. 263)