Since the beginning of film history, film-makers and film-theoreticians have tried to compare "film" with verbal language in a serious attempt to justify the film medium. The debate over a special "film language" is in itself problematic. The main difficulty lies in the use of the term "language" to describe words and images. It is very surprising that the concept of "film language" has been around since the time of the earliest films. Even though cinematography occupies a position between moving images and storytelling, it seems to have grown into a technical, visual competitor to spoken language. From there something resembling an international language theory has developed.
In the early stages of cinematography, the montage was seen as the language of the film director. Wdelovod Pudowkin recognized that the union of the film sequences has a strong influence on the cinematographic statement of the regisseur. He was the first person to consider comparing film and language to each other and the first to equate film images with words.
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