A French Montage simply means to assemble. Therefore, the process identifies as editing in French films. A person who is famous for French Montage is Jean-Luc Goddard.
Hollywood Montage is where the film maker will want to take the most important clips, to make the clip shorter by condensing. The reason to why the important clips are made shorter is because the overall film will become uninteresting, so there needs to be shorter clips that grab the audiences attention. An example of a Hollywood Montage is the film 'Rocky', where Rocky is training. In the clip we see that Rocky has trained during day time as well as night time, because of the light shining in the background. In addition, this is an important clip as we do not see the whole day, apart from when Rocky has started and also ended his training.
Furthermore, in early Soviet there was a whole other meaning to film making in 1920. But now Soviet Montage is literally juxtaposing different shots to contrast. Film makers do this to show the actual meaning of the film, which did not exist before in the shots. For example Sergei Eisenstein who was a film director had introduced the Soviet Montage. Eisenstein's first ever feature length film was named 'Strike in 1925'. The film shows how the butcher is slaughtering the cattle through using cross cutting in the shot, also it shows how the striking workers were mistreated by the Russian troop.
However, before Eisenstein there was a young film maker called Lev Kuleshov who was doing experiments around 1920. Kuleshov had experimented by taking old film clips of a head shot of this Russian actor. Then he had inter-cut the head shots with any three images to compare.
Lev Kuleshov Kuleshov's Experiment
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