De acordo com o Glossário dos Termos de Roteiro & Movie & Definições de produção cinematográfica :
FLASH CUT:
An extremely brief shot, sometimes as short as one frame, which is nearly subliminal in effect. Also a series of short staccato shots that create a rhythmic effect.
Por exemplo:
Splice Trailer #2: More Flash Cuts, More Creature Glimpses
The trailer is full of horror-film sound effects and flash cuts to seemingly violent images as a woman looks terrified by a garage door going up and down, before Lowe's Peterson is shown on the other side and utters his sole line: "I'm untouchable, bitch."
Writer / Director Rob Zombie s hines brilliance throughout this film, punctuated with horribly bad flash cuts as if the entire movie was one long d rawn-out MTV video. ...
A primeira ocorrência talvez em Lawrence da Arábia (1962):
All art is subjective, but the edit that occurs in this scene after Jackson Bentley (Arthur Kennedy) fires off his flash powder when photographing T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is my favorite "edit" in movie history. Perhaps it's the snap from solemn to a loud crash of horse hooves. Or it could be because it's one of the first "flash cuts" in movie history, but it still gives me goosebumps.